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...excitement and the possibilities of space exploration. If it's all a hoax--if the pictures aren't real, if the stories are manufactured--it doesn't matter all that much anyway. After all, most of us will never go into space anyway. So let's succumb to disbelief and enjoy the show...
...Saturday matinee in Potsdam, New York, the Crimson will match up against the defending ECAC champion Clarkson. The Golden Knights the only ECAC squad yet to succumb to a league opponent. Clarkson also managed to tie Boston University earlier in the year. The Terriers are the No. 2 team in the nation...
...making Time Digital visually engaging. Thanks to design director Janet Waegel and picture editor Jay Colton, the magazine has a lively mix of graphic styles, irreverent headlines and pictures and charts that depart refreshingly from their customary positions on the page. Eisenberg and Seaman also insisted that stories not succumb to technohype. Says Seaman: "We were determined not to be breathless cheerleaders for all things digital." Thus, among other heretical stories, you'll read about how technological change is not necessarily good news for some workers. And you'll see the surprising results of a comparison between shopping in cyberspace...
...undue influence over the House Republicans, in particular." Asked about the letter today, Clinton happily riffed through his police-friendly accomplishments (the Brady bill, the assault weapons ban) and again called for a ban on armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets. To Republicans, Clinton said: "If you do succumb to the political pressures from extremist groups to repeal any of these measures, I will veto them in a heartbeat...
...Both Russia and the U.S. have powerful incentives to make a joint venture work. The Russians desperately need U.S. financial help to salvage their fast-crumbling space infrastructure. The U.S. wants to keep the attention of Russian scientists and rocket engineers focused on nonmilitary projects, rather than see them succumb to the lure of weapons work for other nations. Moreover, though America's manned space program is much healthier than Russia's, a tightfisted Congress keeps squeezing the agency's budget. The latest round of cost cutting will force NASA to eliminate nearly 30,000 civil service and contract jobs...