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...move the White House probably saw as an election-year head snapper, President George W. Bush sketched out a long-term vision for manned spaceflight that goes far beyond the dog paddling in near-Earth orbit to which the space agency has confined itself since the 1970s. Back on the table is human exploration of the moon; back on the table is human exploration of Mars. Swept to the floor--or at least to the side--is the overbudget, underproducing International Space Station and the increasingly creaky, increasingly lethal shuttle fleet...
...with the part-time bass player--his wife Heidi Meredith. Both had grown up in broken homes and hoped to avoid separation. But after more than a decade together, they had devolved into chronic arguers: how to make the bed, how to make music. "We were in this decaying orbit that was going to crash and burn," says Roth. Says Meredith, 39: "It was never a question of our not loving each other. We would just completely butt heads, and then we would analyze it to death. That just got us in deeper...
...ABANDONED. NOZOMI, a Mars probe that was Japan's first interplanetary mission, after scientists determined it wouldn't be able to properly orbit the red planet because of an electrical failure. The craft, whose name means hope in Japanese, will be steered away from Mars to prevent it from crashing into the planet...
...election in March 2004, Putin insists he has no plans to amend the constitution to change the presidential term from four to seven years - or lift the two-term limit. Allies and adversaries alike predict he will. SATELLITE STATES: Putin would like to pull back into Russian orbit the small nations that broke away from the U.S.S.R. in 1991. The prize: Georgia - tiny, strategic, near bankrupt and chaotic. One problem: the U.S. insists that it is committed to the country's independence and territorial integrity. CHECHNYA: A promise to crush the rebellion in the breakaway republic brought Putin to power...
...Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), who is sick with AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who is gay, closeted and stricken with AIDS; the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom Cohn, by pulling strings, got executed for treason; and an angel (Emma Thompson)--the spiritual avatar of America...