Word: seem
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...imposing as the problems of extended space flight seem, most experts are confident that humans can survive the journey to Mars. But in what shape will they be when they get there? Says NASA Physicist Wendell Mendell: "It doesn't do you much good to deliver a human to the Martian surface if that human is inert for a time after landing...
Soviet space doctors seem more sanguine. While no American has stayed in space for more than three months, the Soviets have repeatedly staged manned flights of longer duration, capped by the 326-day stay of Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko last year aboard the orbiting space station Mir. "The experience of that flight," says Dr. Arkadi Ushakov of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, "testifies that we should be optimistic about long-duration space flight. Our knowledge in the field of weightlessness is growing, and we are learning what countermeasures need to be taken to ensure health and safety...
...judging from the denial and drift last week, the nation seems on the verge of endorsing the premise that the death of 290 civilians warrants only conditional and begrudging apologies. Because the U.S. did not intend for those people to be killed, many Americans seem to be saying, it is thus not at fault that they were. If so, Independence Day Weekend 1988 may be remembered as that moment when Americans declared their independence from the moral consequences of misadventure...
...Taiwanese to head the Kuomintang, is expected to reduce government intervention in the economy and continue an expansion of civil liberties in the wake of last year's end to martial law. Taiwan relaxed a ban on travel to the mainland last year, but other major initiatives toward Beijing seem unlikely. Lee last week vowed to "make no compromise of any kind" with Beijing...
...Francisco, and when the Republicans gather in New Orleans next month, they will bring with them the usual arsenal of portable computers, cellular telephones and fax machines. But this year the Democrats, eager to portray themselves as the party that champions economic growth through high technology, seem to find pride and political symbolism in the fact that their convention will significantly out tech the Republicans'. "We just really knocked ourselves out to make sure we ended up with a state-of-the-art information system," says Arleigh Greenblatt, general manager of the convention and the man credited with the Democrats...