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...quiet strolls at night, crunching through leaves under a clear autumn sky and gazing into Orion's starry belt. To solitary idleness that prompts somber reflection...
...same time, UCLA's original system, ORION, is disabled due to Y2K difficulties. Since ORION could not recognize due-dates after December 1999, it could not keep track of circulation and had to be shut down...
...Circles of Santa Cruz, Calif.--the excitement still resonates. Even 10 days later, "People are walking through the halls high-fiving each other," says Johnson. "The atmosphere here is just joyous." To keep it that way, Adlink managers are planning another offsite next year. And they've invited the Orion Learning trainers to follow up with quarterly visits to Adlink headquarters, where they will use slogans and short exercises to refresh the staff...
...month, a U.S. rocket failed to lift its satellite payload into the proper orbit. On Tuesday, the second-stage boosters failed on a Boeing-made Delta III; in April, two Lockheed Martin Titan IVs fell short of their target orbits. The mission cost of the latest Delta failure, an Orion communication satellite that wound up in a lopsided orbit, was $230 million. That is the kind of money satellite companies don?t generally like to see blast off into nothing...
...stories that convey basic truths about humanity, but I'm against the author obtrusively pointing them out for me. I'm not even sure I know what a platitude like "The future is still intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable" from the story "Orion" means. Are our futures really that predetermined? And of course "the past is irredeemable"--It's already happened; it's gone. It's tautologies like that that make me lash out in my mind at Winterson and scream: "Just get on with your bloody beautiful tale!" These moments jolt readers back into their reality...