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...about checking the laces as the wheezing old Mir prepares to end its life in a planned crash, scheduled for Thursday or Friday of this week. The 143-ton ship will re-enter the atmosphere in a flaming arc over the South Pacific, hitting the ocean as a sizzling pile of slag somewhere between Chile and Australia. But even as this final dive approaches, Mir's biographers are working hard to catalog the station's achievements: the 16,500 experiments conducted in its labs; the 600 industrial technologies it helped create; the 104 crew members who called the ship home...
...they do to help? The good news for most parents - not to mention their kids - is that the majority of childhood terrors are fleeting. In a big, forbidding world that most children can't begin to make sense of, it's normal to gather up free-floating anxieties and pile them onto one comprehensible entity - dogs, sirens, the dark...
...would be pointless merely to add our voice to the growing pile of condemnations of the paper thieves. What is most concerning about the Brown debacle is not the theft or its intellectually dishonest defenders, but rather the assumption, equally shared by the Third World coalition and many of its detractors, that newspapers are ideological monoliths--that the decision to accept an ad or revise a story can be motivated only by political biases and not by honest deliberation on journalistic principles. After all, the Daily Herald printed the advertisement even though it has taken no position on reparations...
...first thing she does when she wakes up at noon, even before she checks out the latest computer game or heads to the mall to keep track of her favorite fashions. Fifi's parents were upset when she decided not to attend university, but when she made a pile of money by investing a little cash they had given her, they stopped complaining. She's never taken an economics class but she knows about the World Trade Organization, and she thinks it's a good time to divest of TV stocks because Chinese electronics won't be able to compete...
...buzzer sounded, the Cambridge side of the Centrum exploded in jubiliation, while the CRLS team collapsed in a pig pile at center court. Ford, looking a bit like Jim Volvano, darted to one end of the court, his arms raised in victory...