Word: station
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Compared to the space station, balloons seem positively retro, something out of Jules Verne. Even today's sophisticated high-altitude models are little more than helium-filled sacs with gondolas swinging beneath them, rising no more than 20 or 25 miles, barely twice as high as military jets and complete captives of the wind. Yet while ballooning may seem the antithesis of the space age, it is exciting renewed interest as a low-cost alternative to costly orbital labs...
...such elusive phenomena as planets in other solar systems, black holes and remnants of the Big Bang. Says astrophysicist Josh Grindlay, leader of a Harvard-Smithsonian group that uses balloons to map distant X-ray sources: "For some science, they're going to give the shuttle or space station a run for the money...
Tomorrow, the radio station WBUR is profiling Sedgwick on its morning show...
...somebody's daddy too," Gates says as he gets into a blue Mercedes station wagon parked outside the Barker Center. Before arriving at work, he sometimes drives his daughter to school...
...home early. Screw the rest of yourclasses. See your family. Depart either via LoganAirport or South Station. All day long.EXPENSIVE...