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Without the anomaly of an unscheduled summer, I would never have been able to read the novel. The British company Orion Books claims to have found a solution for busy people like myself. This spring, it began to publish ultra-abridged versions of classics like “Anna Karenina,” shortening them to about half their original size and advertising them as great books “in half the time.” The goal is to trim away all excess verbiage, jettison any pointless asides, and streamline prose so that it follows a more straightforward...
...Many of the Founders, in fact, trace their desire to go into space to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon in 1969. P.J. King was a kid, living in western Ireland, admiring the sky one night when his older brother started pointing out Orion and the constellations. "I said that's cool. We should go there. And my big brother says, you can't go there! I was angry and yelled, 'But I saw it on TV! They went to the moon'." Now 38 and living in Dublin, he laughs at the memory, but feels bad about not using...
...assuming I will get the visa, but if I don’t, the thinking is that I’ll get a job in an international office,” said Sinha, who is looking for a job in finance.Segovia, meanwhile, is working for Orion Consultants in New York City, but her long-term status is uncertain.“Right now,” she said, “I have no idea what’s going to happen and I don’t think anybody else does...
...Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. In this excerpt, the action begins on Dec. 10, 2003, as Weisskopf, 57 at the time, is on assignment in Baghdad, riding in the back of an open humvee along with TIME photographer James Nachtwey and two young soldiers, Private Orion Jenks and Private First Class Jim Beverly...
...Shuttle Successor Orion set to blast off by 2014 NASA has awarded Lockheed a multibillion-dollar contract to build the next manned space vehicle. Orion's design is winning praise, but skeptics wonder if future Administrations will fund...