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...classroom, peering at the work on their screens, shooting down technical troubles. "It's more fun for me now with my classmates, for sure," he says, nodding. At the front of the room, the students take turns projecting reports from their laptops onto a large white screen. A shaft of sunlight streaming through the windows makes the reports look a little faint. "We normally save these for cloudy days," Gordon jokes. Jose's group goes last and offers a presentation on geothermal energy that would impress in a corporate boardroom. When the students finish, their teacher nods approvingly. The class...
...were powerless to make the sweeping maneuver necessary to orient the solar panels, the thrusters on the Soyuz might not be. Like a pickup truck pushing a tractor trailer, the little lifeboat just might be able to nudge the mammoth Mir far enough for its panels to catch a shaft of sunlight...
...demonstrators at the rally on Monday, while Scientology organizers put the size of the crowd at 6,500. The group had hoped Travolta, one of the Los Angeles-based religion's most prominent disciples, would personally attend the demonstration. Two other celebrity Scientologists ? "Fatal Attraction" actress Anne Archer and "Shaft" composer Isaac Hayes ? joined the protest march through the streets of Berlin...
Last year, the president of Lambda Chi Alpha was hospitalized after falling down his house's four-story elevator shaft in an alcohol-related incident. In 1991, a sophomore in Sigma Alpha Epsilon was accused of rape, and numerous other societies have frequently lost their right to serve alcohol in recent years...
Even before Vinogradov finished, the space station's solar panels apparently caught a shaft of sunlight, and power began flowing to the blacked-out lab, causing it to stir to life. "I can see fans spinning and pumps working," he called out. "You're giving us really good news," a controller said, laughing. "Russian equipment works even in a total vacuum...