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...American millionaire Dennis Tito wants to pay millions to stay at the universe's most expensive hotel, the International Space Station [SPACE, April 30], then the partners who own the place should take the money! Is it any more "distasteful" for NASA to charge a steep admission for visitors to gawk at the boringly earthbound Kennedy Space Center? NASA may be missing the boat on pocketing well-needed research money for something that will become commonplace in the future: paid space visits. DAN HERAUF Calgary...
...FULL STOP This maneuver inexplicably failed on the hill of lap four. As I came into the steep grade of the hill I stepped on my right foot and planted my right pole in the snow. Next I went to push with my right pole and step onto my left foot, thus moving myself forward. Instead of the expected motion forward, this reliable method of propelling myself on skis resulted in net zero progress. I've fallen down skiing countless times, I've stumbled, I've crumpled, I've flopped. I've jammed a pole into the snow between...
...visa for Charity. Jim Bowers was feeding Charity Cheerios when the Peruvian jet dived toward them. He handed the baby to Roni. Seconds later, bullets ripped through the cabin--one entering Roni's back and going into Charity's skull. Both died instantly. The plane was thrown into a steep spiral, and flames erupted all around them. Seriously wounded in both legs, pilot Kevin Donaldson somehow managed to land the plane. In the chaos, Bowers pulled the bodies of his wife and daughter from the burning wreckage. Bowers and his son perched atop the capsized plane's pontoons until natives...
...knew a girl whose lover came in several disguises--white cross Methedrine, orange triangles of Dexedrine, "black beauties," long white lines of coke. She followed her lover everywhere--into parking lots with strangers, into dark cars, into the shadows along steep mountain roads, into apartments that smelled like stale smoke and had three or four locks on every door. When her lover wasn't with her, she was left with her own terror of how to move through the world alone. She didn't know how to deal with people alone; she needed her partner, her other half. You need...
...again, with U.S. consumer spending accounting for 90 percent of all U.S. economic growth in the first quarter of 2000. Led possibly by Fed cuts in interest rates, home sales - which in turn tend to lead all sorts of other purchasing - are at record highs, and the steep fall in consumer confidence over the last six months has so far not showed up in spending habits...