Word: stations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gephardt's anger is an utterly transparent industrial age process, like a steam locomotive creaking out of a station. A calculation is made: Dean's anti-Bush ballistics are working. Chug. Need to match that. Chug. In the first debate, Gephardt slowly torqued himself into--chug-chug--fury over the President's foreign policy, which "is"--chug-chug-chug!--"a miserable failure." Wild applause. Gephardt seemed to blink, surprised. "I came up with that line right there, on the spot," he told me. "It just spilled...
...program looks set to become the world's most ambitious. Stated missions will send a satellite around the moon by 2006, land a robotic explorer several years later and, perhaps as soon as a decade from now, culminate in a moonwalk. After that, China wants to build a space station and "establish a base on the moon," the head of the lunar expedition program, Ouyang Ziyuan, has told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life...
...China didn't adopt this go-it-alone approach by choice. It was left out of the 16-nation International Space Station project, which includes space neophytes such as Belgium. China's once lucrative satellite-launch industry has been devastated by U.S. sanctions preventing the country from launching commercial satellites that use American components. And last year, the U.S. refused to grant visas to some Chinese scientists invited to participate in the World Space Congress in Houston, even though several were slated to present papers there. Physicist Sun Huixian was so angry about the American cold shoulder that he ordered...
...cool night in April 1998 when an unmarked police car reversed toward them. To avoid getting run over, Walsh banged on the trunk - for which she was arrested and hurled into the back of a police van. When Ciara protested, she was arrested too. On their way to the station, Walsh says she was held by the hair while a policeman knelt on her back. When the van door opened, she was shoved out and fell head-first on the ground, gashing her chin. Her jeans ripped as she was dragged through the doors of the station. The sisters ultimately...
...omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...