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Carrying several overflowing bags, Maura E. Murphy steps on and stumbles into a seat...
Aldrin scorns such plans. So modest a passenger spacecraft could carry just a handful of people, which could push the price of even a steerage seat to $100,000. Instead Aldrin prefers a concept that airlines using wide-body planes embraced long ago: carry lots of people at once and drive down the per-passenger cost. To get such an orbital airbus flying, he founded ShareSpace, a nonprofit company designed to help fund and promote mass-market space travel. ShareSpace's vision for cosmic tourism includes Earth-orbiting ships carrying as many as 100 people and clusters of modules that...
...Chicago fans threw him a little party, Dominicans in New York City have taken to writing Sosa's name and home-run count in soap on buses and car windows, and more than 100 reporters have credentials to the Cubs' clubhouse. Infielder Mickey Morandini, looking for a seat in the dugout before a game last Thursday, asked, "Is this the player bench or the media bench...
GIMME A HAND Tip O'Neill famously said that all politics is local. Proving that point, Somerville mayor Michael Capuano [4] won the Democratic primary for O'Neill's old House seat (once also held by J.F.K.), swaying voters with aggressive campaigning. That tactic was better than that of his closest competition, former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Ray Flynn, who showed pictures of himself with the Pope and Mother Teresa...
BONN: Germany's swing to the left has put smooth-talking centrist Gerhard Schroeder in power, but it may also make life difficult for the new chancellor. Schroeder was finalizing plans Monday for a coalition with the Greens, whose 47 seats would give him a 21-seat majority. "Here's a guy who got elected as representing 'the new center,' but both his Green coalition partners and the left wing of his own Social Democratic Party aren't enthusiastic about his economic plans," says TIME correspondent James Graff. "It's not surprising that he's being cagey about policy specifics...