Word: nearly
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...second trip." After 10 years on the ground with ear trouble, Shepard was 47 in 1971 when, with very little training, he took the Apollo 14 lunar module back up -- and spent 33 hours on the moon's surface. "At that time, on the heels of the Apollo 13 near-disaster, people were asking whether space was worth the risk. Shepard succeeded at a very critical time for NASA...
...spring of 1995, Yang and Filo put their doctoral theses on hold and moved into their first office, in nearby Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley, near some railroad tracks. It was a relatively big suite, around 1,700 sq. ft., which they needed for the computer servers that would gather and store the data, and the people who would feed and care for them. But by the end of the year they needed more space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great...
...INVITED Be a company president, chairman or CEO at a multinational media concern. And plan to do lots of expensive deals in the near future...
...Gurian, no matter what one believes about nature vs. nurture, it's hard to argue against the common-sense view that spending time with worthy male mentors is a good thing. But his eerie near dismissal of mothers gets in the way of his often sensible argument and devolves on occasion into a paranoia about a world dominated by manipulative women. He calls Gloria Steinem a "victim" feminist. Women, he says, do not see "how neglected their emotionally disadvantaged adolescent sons feel" as a result of women's lack of interest "in male biology and thus its forgetfulness...
...Russia's overworked and under-financed space station, may be landing near you soon. Russian space officials, desperately short on cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits...