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...nothing that the first commander of a shuttle flight was Gemini and Apollo veteran John Young, widely respected as an iceman at the stick. If you're going to fly so tricky a ship, you have to be. "When you re-enter, you're moving at 25 times the speed of sound," says former astronaut Dr. Norm Thagard. Hitting the atmosphere at that velocity is "not unlike slamming into a brick wall, if you're not at the correct attitude...
...this the right printer to spend $200 on? It's a tough question. I like Epson printers, but I value image quality and versatility (Epson's Stylus Photo R320 can print onto CDs) over speed. The bottom line: Epson may make a prettier picture, but now it's only slightly prettier, and it doesn't come out anywhere near as fast...
...ordinary party--it's a pharming party, a get-together arranged while parents are out so the kids can barter for their favorite prescription drugs. Pharming parties--or just "pharming" (from pharmaceuticals)--represent a growing trend among teenage drug abusers. While use of illegal substances like speed, heroin and pot has declined over the past decade, according to a report issued three weeks ago by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), abuse of prescription drugs has increased sharply. CASA says about 2.3 million kids ages 12 to 17 took legal medications illegally...
...pilot trainees, we underwent several months of intensive study learning how to maneuver by depth, direction and speed. There were two hatches, one above and one below the cockpit. These were not for escape purposes; even if the pilot attempted to escape, he wouldn?t survive. My training propelled me toward my final goal: death. Life was meaningful as it had a definite and immediate sense of purpose...
...Lots of big businesses try to ensure that their employees are up to speed on relevant information, and RSS is an incredibly inexpensive way to do that and ensure that information can be much more cheaply disseminated,” Palfrey said...