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...Bundesrat has long been a reassuringly sleepy chamber. Composed of representatives of the 16 German states, the upper house of parliament normally can be counted on to approve new legislation without raising a fuss. All that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
Marx may have nixed Christmas, but he said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked...
...time went by and the station aged, crews no longer had the luxury of such pranks. The world remembers Mir for its hair-raising string of crises in the late 1990s--culminating in a collision with an unmanned cargo ship in 1997--but there were other, less publicized near misses. Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov almost became a satellite himself when his safety tether came loose during a spacewalk. Luckily, he managed to grab hold of the station. In 1994, Mir lost its orientation, causing most of its onboard systems to sputter out, including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay...
...lachanophobia: ... vegetables leprophobia : ... leprosy leukophobia: ... the color white ligyrophobia: ... loud noises limnophobia: ... lakes linonophobia: ... string liticaphobia: ... lawsuits lockiophobia: ... childbirth logophobia: ... words luiphobia: ... syphilis lutraphobia: ... otters lygophobia: ... darkness...
...spending a weekend afternoon watching, not just Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner leading up to Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Todd Newton and Cindy Hom leading up to Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner, but Michael Castner and Linda Grasso - the fourth string of E! anchors - leading up to Todd Newton and Cindy Hom... well, you obviously watch so damn much TV that you are in need of electronic assistance...