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...retrospect, I think I was too concerned with trying to smooth things over [with the administration]," he says...
...weeks ago, in Littleton, Colo., Hillary gave a touching, eloquent speech to Columbine students. It was the First Lady at her best. There are more of those to give, more causes to pursue, more crises to smooth over and more sunsets to watch from the Truman Balcony. It is generous of her to give up the wealth that awaits her after the White House for the chance to answer Trent Lott's quorum calls. But there are other ways to serve. If nothing else, before making up her mind, she should try out the middle seat on the Delta Shuttle...
...SETI scientist who stumbles across an alien radio signal. That's how I see it happening to me: I'll be slumped over my desk in the Time & Life Building, struggling with another bout of writer's block, when all that random noise will suddenly transform itself into a smooth undulating wave...
...sound singular. Her lyrics could be a bit more pointed: "I just want to feel safe in my own skin/ I just want to be happy again" go the rather bland words to Honestly OK. But the real energy in Dido's songs is in the rhythm, in the smooth collision of genres and in the emotional details that her voice provides. This debut sparkles with promise...
...NASA -- the ISS, already late and over budget before it's even habitable, should have half Mir's luck. "Say what we will about Mir's jalopy days, next spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship in August after installing a new computer allowing ground controllers to command the station remotely. From that point Mir's orbit, currently about 240 miles above Earth, will begin to tighten. When...