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...Rosetta project. "We're going out there, landing on a comet and doing our analysis in situ." Southwood and his colleagues at esa are indulging their obsession at a time of heightened interest in space - and heightened controversy about space exploration. The success of ESA's Mars Express orbiter mission and NASA's Spirit and Opportunity landers - all of which sent back stunning photos of the Red Planet - promises fascinating advances in our knowledge of our planetary neighbor. But the explosion of the Columbia space shuttle last year, killing all seven astronauts on board, has raised doubts about the cost...
...Because it is a measure of the spell that Disney cast upon my family this week that, after I got my breath back - I felt for a second like I had been whacked again by the takeoff sequence over at Epcot?s ?MISSION: Space? - I had a moment of exquisite clarity. I?m sure it was quite like what overcame Tom Brady, when he suddenly realized that the next thing he had to do in life was get to Disney World. ?Well,? I said to myself, ?I am certainly not going to let George F Steinbrenner, the Terror from Tampa...
...because it is part of our mission to divert unwanted cosmetics away from disposal and towards those who can use them,” Gogan wrote in an e-mail...
...could not afford to have one person on my staff continuously tracking all of the legislation and court cases going through the U.S. Congress,” she said. “ARL has taken this on as a mission for the multiple libraries that make up its membership. The staff have relationships with various members of the congressional staff so they may sometimes hear about legislation before it’s actually drafted...
...firm’s mission—“to undo the damage done by almost a century of liberal thinking and activism,” according to its website—became something of a personal mission for Davey. He began to see his case as a chance to protect religious people from discrimination propagated by a secular, liberal power elite...