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...broken three years in a row. That hasn't stopped him from crowding the plate in that squatty stance and sending balls into orbit that the Johnson Space Center ends up tracking. Of course, baseball isn't as exciting as figuring out what's going to explode next on Mir...
...watchers following the recent arrival of American astronaut David Wolf aboard the Russian space station Mir can look toward the heavens to spot the station in orbit from the Charles River this weekend...
Both the American space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian Mir station, which are 250 miles above the surface of the earth, may still be visible close to each other on Friday evening before Atlantis lands...
...hammered out agreements on unglamorous issues other politicians avoid, like environmental cleanup and health-care exchanges. This week's meeting will have "no single newsworthy event" to dazzle reporters, he admits. But the two men were to tackle such thorny subjects as Russian arms sales to Iran, the Mir space station and allegations that Moscow continues to test nuclear weapons. More important, the commission gives Gore a chance to huddle with a foreign leader and, even better, escape the campaign-finance scandal in Washington...
...were singing like canaries, the senators were having a, er, whale of a time overturning some other sacred cows, like the FDA and the McCain-Feingold bill. The House had some trouble keeping NASA in check ? David Wolf, that dirty rat that actually wanted to go to the Mir, slipped through Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner's fingers like a stratospheric salmon...