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Despite such obvious design glitches, the launch of Zvezda was greeted with jubilation--and for good reason. The U.S.-led, 16-nation ISS had been on hold for two years while the cash-poor Russians tried to scare up the funds to get the module built and launched. It was only with an infusion of dollars from Washington--as well as from so capitalist a benefactor as Pizza Hut, which bought advertising space on the side of the Zvezda booster--that the job was completed. Zvezda now joins the Zarya and Unity modules, which have been in orbit since...
First, don't let your opposition scare you. I assure you, the more seriously you take your opponent, the more seriously everyone else will take him. This is why I take every opportunity to publicly guffaw in the face of Conservative Party Leader William Hague. This just reassures the public that indeed, the smarter man is running the government. It also makes Hague seem like a laughable little insect, instead of a rather devastating parliamentarian...
...suicidal tendencies) but also down the road (think brain damage). Granted, Glenmullen has been dismissed by many of his fellow psychiatrists as an alarmist quack, but I think he's still got some explaining to do. I would like to know why anyone would feel the need to scare the living daylights out of an entire country where one would be hard-pressed to locate a single citizen who doesn't know someone taking one of the aforementioned drugs. Perhaps a few (say, seven or so) simultaneous doses of Paxil would calm him down...
...trying to scare his audience, it seemed to be working. One lawyer, perhaps hoping his own clients would be able to dodge the Scruggs juggernaut, asked if the wave of managed-care lawsuits would ever reach smaller HMOs. "Man, we're going to sue everybody," Scruggs said as the room filled with nervous laughter. "You have somebody in mind...
...bricks, mortar and machinery, it stays put. Portfolio--that is, stock and bond--investment is more volatile. But Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist of CNBC.com points out that the 37% nose dive in the NASDAQ index from its March 10 high to its May 23 low did not appear to scare away much foreign investment--at least not enough to make any difference in the dollar's price. "I was holding my breath on that one," says Kudlow...