Word: orbit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scientists, that's where the excitement lies, not in this week's approach. The two planets come close every 26 months or so, as the closer-in, faster-moving Earth laps the slower Mars on their journeys around the sun. But Mars' orbit isn't quite circular; it's elliptical, so it's sometimes closer to and sometimes farther from the sun. (Earth's orbit is also elliptical but much less so.) When the Earth catches up at a time when Mars is relatively near the sun, there's an especially close encounter. In 1988 the planets were just...
...friends is drawn from family, like his nephew Patrick Knapp, a lawyer, and Bobby Shriver, his wife's brother, who is a political activist and movie producer. Friends say the Kennedy-Shriver clan has softened the edges of Schwarzenegger's politics from the time he came into their orbit in the late 1970s. "Arnold was quite right wing when I first met him in 1972," says Butler. "Maria has moderated that quite...
...orders, and his highest profile job to date has been as chairman of his country's Olympic Committee. Moscow watched with dismay over the past decade as Aliyev senior moved closer to the U.S., and will undoubtedly view the succession as an opportunity to pull Azerbaijan back into its orbit. The Kremlin will be betting on Ayaz Mutalibov, a former Soviet communist party chief in Azerbaijan who lives in exile in Moscow. Another contender in exile, U.S.-based Rasul Guliyev, was the former parliamentary speaker. But both have been refused permission to register as candidates on technical grounds that they...
...they must share equal time and space with booths like the one selling swords and weaponry. San Diego Con is the only place where nearly all the American comic publishers gather under one roof. Consequently it becomes like a dense star that pulls creators of every genre into its orbit. Fans can go crazy trying to find them all, from the venerable Will Eisner (who was previewing his latest book "Fagin the Jew") to Harvey Pekar (stumping for the "American Splendor" movie) to Alex Ross (previewing the new hardcover of his painted superhero art) to Michael Chabon (previewing his comic...
...government. This translates into swollen prices for gasoline, home heating oil and other petroleum products. What's worse is that because of Congress's three decades of fumbled energy legislation, Americans have become more vulnerable than ever to an interruption in foreign supply that would truly send prices into orbit and cripple the U.S. economy. More than 53% of America's daily consumption of oil and petroleum products comes from foreign sources, compared with...