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...Baikonur A Russian cargo vessel launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan docked with the beleaguered Mir, as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the 15-year-old space station. The successful docking of the unmanned Progress M1-5 ship, which is carrying twice its normal fuel cargo, was slightly behind schedule?however, Russian officials still anticipate that Mir will be destroyed, as expected, in early March. If all goes according to plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will...
Dreaded capitalists have commandeered the ship, speaking the bottom-line language of Arbitron ratings and floating the idea of raking in millions by selling a station. They literally changed the locks and barred several employees from the building at WBAI last month, after doing the same thing two years ago at KPFA. The irony is richest at WBAI, where the program director and others were fired without warning on Dec. 22 in "the Christmas coup." So much for "Democracy...
...only one source of his enormous income. Mongla was a transshipment area for smuggling Chinese laborers through Thailand and into America. For this service the laborers paid up to $40,000 each; some paid again with their lives. Three hundred Chinese hailing from Lin's territory were aboard a ship that ran aground off New Jersey in 1993. Scores of them drowned trying to swim ashore through heavy seas...
...when the excitement dies down a bit, there are plenty of other tests to take: the Purity Test, the Sex Test, the Bastard Test, etc. These come in varying degrees of raciness: one part of the Bitch test wants to know "if you were working on a pirate ship, would you most likely be the captain, the first mate, the buccaneer, or pregnant...
...moments where you feel the weasel metamorphosis happening. So I'm ushered into this sterile aircraft hangar-like space where the artists are sequestered, like jurors on lengthy murder trials, before their appointed times on stage. The place reminds me of the building where they store the alien ship in "Independence Day" - it's like a Latin Area 54, cut off from the world and public view. Most of the space is empty, but there are some plastic cubicles where various artists are tucked away like alien lifeforms preserved for study. I see the guys from R.E.M. in one plastic...