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The 1998 NASA report also pointed to a hole in agency's extensive space research. "Thirty years of space flight experience in this country have yielded a gold mine of data and knowledge about the human body and its response to the space environment, but no objective data on the...
Let's start with the basic health of the institution: Americans still love matrimony. We spend more than $50 billion a year on weddings. As the National Marriage Project at Rutgers in New Jersey has pointed out, "More than 90% of women have married eventually in every generation for which...
Delivering responses as crisp as his shirt--and displaying a confidence as miraculously uncreased after months at the center of a storm over alleged corruption--Tony Blair on Feb. 6 submitted to a very public interrogation. He has twice answered police questions--as a witness, not as a suspect--in...
Shareholder lawsuits are also blamed unfairly. Those suits typically accuse a company of securities fraud soon after its stock price plummets, and a 1995 federal law made them harder to pursue. After peaking in 1998, the number of such suits declined through last year. Bloomberg and Schumer have helpfully pointed...
Inside Dahlan's fortress-like compound in Gaza City, his men were wielding brand-new M-16 rifles and were clearly organizing for future fighting, even as leaders claimed high hopes for the Mecca peace conference. As Dahlan's men pointed out where the mortar and grenade rounds had landed...