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Faced with longer check-in lines, lengthy security screening and more airline baggage restrictions, many passengers are sending their bags ahead via luggage-shipping services. Companies such as Luggage Express, Virtual Bellhop, Sports Express and Skycap International will pick up your luggage at your home, office or hotel and deliver it to your destination overnight. A 40-lb. suitcase flown from New York City to Los Angeles costs $98 to $131--less if you can send the bags two or three days before you depart. And if you really aren't in a rush, ship that bag full of dirty...
...always been liftoff, and the dangers posed by massive fuel load involved. Reentry has, of course, always been a difficult part of the space program. But this is, in fact, our first fatal accident on reentry. Apollo 13 is remembered as our most difficult ever reentry, but the ship and crew survived. The Soviets lost a crew on reentry in 1970 after an oxygen leak that caused the cosmonauts to suffocate on the way down. Reentry is a very difficult process, but the Russians mastered it in 1961 and we did the same a few years later...
...former toy distributor, is partnering with Mexico City--based Grupo Magico Internacional, an amusement-park operator, to build Wannado, a $50 million children's career theme center set to open in Sunrise, Fla., in the spring of 2004. For $15 to $20, kids can play doctor--and cruise-ship captain, archaeologist and dozens of other roles--in lifelike surroundings with adult actors. Wannado will be modeled after a hit Mexico City operation that Laresgoiti, 38, built...
...That meeting hardly proceeded according to North Korea's plan. North Korean Foreign Ministry officials were reportedly left all but speechless, having cheerfully assumed that Kelly was coming to town with an offer of renewed aid. Reports further suggest that Pyongyang had even readied the U.S.S. Pueblo, the spy ship North Korea captured in 1968, for return to Washington as a gesture of thanks...
...Japan's troops are among the best equipped and trained. Its defense budget is the fourth highest on the planet. And, at least in small-scale confrontations, Japan has demonstrated a willingness and ability to engage, as when its coast guard sank a trespassing North Korean spy ship in December...