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Eventually, no amount of rocket-jock calm could hide the fact that Mir had become a deathtrap. Once parts of the glinting International Space Station went aloft, it was clear there was no need to keep the old outpost in orbit. So now, more than 15 years after it was launched on what was to have been a three-year flight, Mir will splash into history, its mission finished but its story only beginning to be told...
Business got better--and work worse--Henschel says, when "we started growing like a rocket." Henschel hired professional managers: a head of operations, a national sales manager, a controller. "These people picked up the ball and ran with it," Henschel says. Kerr, on the other hand, played defense, frustrating them at every turn. "I'd think, 'Goddammit, it's my business, and I'll do what I want,'" he says. "I'd rather drink bleach than go to a team meeting...
...with the demolition job; earlier, they drilled a hole in the larger statue's head so they could pack in dynamite there and around its feet, toppling the 1,400 year old colossus. The smaller statue was already badly damaged: as a cruel joke, Taliban militiamen had fired a rocket at its groin. Until last Saturday, the regime was denying access to Bamiyan, so it was still uncertain whether the demolition orders were being carried...
...said. "But where?" For reasons that are unclear to me, my bro-in-law and I share a powerful affinity for those hot, disgusting, highly caffeinated beverages you can buy only from vending machines at 7-Elevens. Finding a 7-Eleven in your own neighborhood isn't exactly rocket science. But we were vacationing on alien terrain. Where, oh where, was the closest source of the Treacle of Life...
Call it divine enlightenment, but the Crimson was born again on Saturday. After a scoreless first period, the Crimson bombarded SLU's Jeremy Symington with 17 shots in the second and was rewarded with a pair of goals. When junior Jeff Stonehouse deflected junior assistant captain Pete Capouch's rocket from the point at 10:56, Harvard was in firm control of the game...