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Democrats are hoping the special counsel that the ethics committee plans to hire will poke around in the Gingrich money machine until the investigator hits something foul. If the ethics committee balks at any request by the counsel to expand the probe, the Democrats can be counted on to recall the words of a celebrated House firebrand. To place limits on the work of the special counsel, he declared, would be seen as "an attempt by the ethics committee to control the scope and direction of the investigation.'' Who said that? Gingrich did, seven years ago, when he was pushing...
...striking characteristic of the book is the confidence with which Dobrynin writes it. He offers a first-hand account of the pitfalls and the triumphs of U.S.-Soviet relations in the course of three decades. As Russian ambassador, he had the opportunity to work with and probe the minds of both Soviet and American leaders...
Even Scooby found an occasional secret passage, inviting seven-year-old minds to probe further, asking "Who could possibly want to destroy the amusement park?" However, in this play, the plot does not draw one in. Even when the audience learns the identity of the murderer, the climax of the play, there seems no suspense because there is no logical reason for his (or her) guilt. There are no clues, no plot progression or twists. The line are stale and occasionally incoherent, tangential to strang degrees. When Marge delivers a line about the British Royal Army in the context...
After storing the probe's transmitted data in its tape recorder, Galileo will begin its tour of the Jovian system. In a route that will take it into 11 far-ranging orbits during the next 23 months, it will swoop as close as 160 miles above three of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede, flying by each of them several times. On these passes--hundreds of times closer than those achieved by Voyagers 1 and 2 in 1979--it will shoot pictures and, with remote sensing instruments, analyze the chemical composition of the moons. In the course...
Galileo's encounter with Jupiter will culminate nearly two decades of work, planning, disappointment, elation and frustration for thousands of scientists and technicians at J.P.L. and at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, which oversees the probe. "It's been a long, hard fight, both technically and politically," says James Van Allen, the University of Iowa physicist best known for his 1958 discovery of the radiation belts that girdle Earth. Van Allen, who likens the story of the Galileo mission to The Perils of Pauline, ought to know. He headed the scientific study group that first recommended...