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...astronaut program. An old Soviet satellite is about to crash to earth, threatening humanity; since Frank built the technology the Russkies swiped, his expertise is needed. He insists on going up to fix the damn thing and taking his pals along for a senior-citizen road trip to outer space. The Over the Moon Gang rides again, in an alter-kocker Armageddon...
Cheney's degree of access was rare. Bush is known for having a minute inner circle--three aides, a handful of friends. For all his outer amiability, Bush is something of a hermit, "not very sociable," by his own account. He's seldom out and about evenings in Austin, likes to fall asleep watching sports stretched out on the sofa and has no qualms about leaving a roomful of hands unshaken in favor of downtime. His weekend getaway is 1,600 acres of dusty, dry prairie in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but chop wood and drive...
Drive south from Seattle on Interstate 5, through the outer suburbs and Tacoma and a steady stream of Burger Kings, and you'll know you've nearly hit Olympia when you see exit signs for Sleater-Kinney Road. Here three women once paid their dues lugging amps and guitars to a storage space where they practiced. It was the mid-'90s, when talent scouts still scoured Seattle for the next Nirvana, handing out record deals to young men in flannel with evocative band names (remember Candlebox?). Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney's singer-guitarists, lacked the commercial ambition...
...health and well-being. The basic principle states that each person is governed by the three dashes of kapha, vata and pitta. Though everyone has a dominant dosha, which influences everything from skin type to personality, keeping all three in balance is the key to inner health and outer beauty. Yoga is one element of Ayurveda, and its popularity in the States in recent years has led to greater interest in Eastern spiritualism and increased opportunities for Western marketing...
...network will remain optical, and the edges will use a mix of access technologies, ranging from radio and infrared to optical fiber and the old twisted-pair copper telephone lines. By then, the Internet will have been extended, by means of an interplanetary Internet backbone, to operate in outer space...