Word: rocketeer
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What if one or more of these asteroids are found to be a serious threat? Scientists generally agree on the best strategy for avoiding disaster: launch a rocket to intercept the intruder and, at the very least, change its orbit. If the asteroid is small and detected many years and orbits before its predicted impact, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to the asteroid at its closest approach to the sun," says Los Alamos' Canavan. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin." That...
Everybody wants to be Neve's friend these days. She's one of the recent crush of young actors whom Hollywood powerbrokers are starting to bank on to bring a new generation of fans into movie theaters. Her rise has been rocket-fueled. She was born and raised in Guelph, Ont. Her father, a high school drama teacher, and her mother, who ran a dinner theater, divorced when Neve was young. At age 9 she joined the National Ballet School of Canada; at 14 she dropped out of school to join the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera...
...seriously enough. More thananything political, their message is in theirfavoring of combination over content. When ShaunRyder sings about sexism, he is in a sense mockingit, defusing it with the same sarcasm thatdeflates everything he touches. Just what BlackGrape believes is Stupid, Stupid, Stupid isobvious. Laughing as they rocket over the egoismof grunge and the self-conscious stylism of Oasisand Blur, Black Grape has no inclination not toalso leave political music in the scrap heap. Whenit comes to humor, there is intelligence in seeingthe commonalties between politically correctnessand training wheels. In the middle of "Lonely," adrunk Shaun Ryder makes an edifying...
...leaning off a ledge, but when the beepers started going off in the East Room, it was not the Secretaries of State and Defense who leaped from their tables and made for the doors. It was newsman Peter Jennings who "shot out of his seat like a rocket," a Clinton aide recalls. White House staff members had heard rumors all afternoon that something big, something bad was about to break. The blow came when printouts of a story from the next day's New York Times began to circulate suggesting that Clinton had coached his secretary, Betty Currie, to make...
...Rocket scientists vote to blow $20,000 on Sister Hazel, lose sound system--again. New regime, same old problems...