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...second, the Mir space station plunged into the Pacific early Friday. Despite anxieties in Japan and Australia that the dying craft could miss its trajectory and hit land, Russian ground controllers successfully steered it to its final watery resting place some 2,900 km southwest of the Pitcairn Islands. Most of the giant 136-ton structure, which had been in orbit since 1986, burned up as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere. About six fragments survived to splash down...
...commence begging. Although Condit says the company isn't just shopping for tax breaks and other incentives, he won't have to--the states and cities will come running, money in hand. Dallas offers a tax-free state, a business-friendly government and proximity to big customers American and Southwest. And because Boeing is fighting to win the contract for the next generation JSF fighter, its cause wouldn't be hurt by locating in the home state of the President, so the theory goes...
...casts gloom across the countryside. By week's end at least 250,000 animals had been destroyed, and that was only the beginning. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes - in the fields where they grazed. The cost: $10 million and rising in compensation to farmers...
Last year, the Crimson went 0-4 at the Buzz Classic, losing to Maryland, Mercer, Southwest Missouri, and Coastal Carolina University by a cumulative score...
...Phan Thi Lan Huong is one of them. Surrounded by clouds of incense, the 59-year-old grandmother clutches her hands in prayer in front of an altar ringed with painted Buddhas. She is one of up to 20,000 who flock each day to the Chua Huong Pagodas southwest of Hanoi during the pilgrimage season. "Of course we are free to worship," she says, blinking with surprise. "The government never stops us?just those who have bad practices...