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When you spend 16 years and billions of dollars designing a new home, you'd think everyone would get a place to sleep. Last week, however, when the Russian space agency launched into orbit the 22-ton Zvezda service module--the latest, $320 million addition to the much delayed International Space Station--officials conceded they had overlooked something. Though the school bus-size pod will be home to three astronauts for four months at a time, it has been outfitted with only two tiny sleeping berths--leaving one crewman no place to bunk...
...only with an infusion of dollars from Washington--as well as from so capitalist a benefactor as Pizza Hut, which bought advertising space on the side of the Zvezda booster--that the job was completed. Zvezda now joins the Zarya and Unity modules, which have been in orbit since 1998, forming the centerpiece of a massive 360-ft.-long, 460-ton space liner, set to be completed...
Just a year ago, Vicksburg parents weren't such loyal customers. Like most school districts along the lower Mississippi, Vicksburg's had long hovered outside the orbit of education reformers. It was still largely segregated, and year after year its test scores stagnated. The schools were so overcrowded that at one building three teachers held class in the gymnasium at the same time. So parents took to voting with their feet. And their skin. Many white parents fled to private and parochial schools, while others began home schooling. Some black parents, convinced the schools in their neighborhoods were worse...
Part of the credit goes to her new producer, Damian LeGassick, who until now was chiefly known as a keyboardist for, and protege of, the influential British electronic producer William Orbit. LeGassick met lang in 1998 through Madonna, whose music Orbit was producing at the time. Wisely avoiding the fancy bells and whistles that many electronic producers seem unable to resist, LeGassick has instead imbued Summer with an organic, retro feel. Although it may lack some of the lushness of lang's earlier work, it creates a dramatic counterpoint to her shimmering voice. He opens the bossa nova-tinged Summerfling...
...Rain check, typically 5. Tony Blair's brand-new son 8. Polish partner 12. eBay halted bidding on a charred rifle from here 13. Stevedores' org. 14. Take on board 15. It boosted the space station to a higher orbit 17. Gray area?: Abbr. 18. "Peachy-keen!" 19. The House voted to repeal a __ tax enacted to finance Spanish-American War 20. Get to work on TIME? 23. Key at the upper-left corner 24. __ Hamoukar, site of a recently discovered 6,000-year-old city in Syria 27. Like the Sabin vaccine 29. One of L.B.J.'s beagles...