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...intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose members are unhappy over a Kremlin proposal to house the two chambers in separate buildings until a new complex can be built on an abandoned sports field just behind the White House. The reported price tag left Russians gagging: $500 million...
...atomic weapon of gun control, it also inspires the same reluctance to use it; for most Americans, it seems too radical a step. Even Handgun Control Inc. shies away from the idea, perhaps because that kind of policy would make it easier for the N.R.A. to tag it as extreme. The future of gun control is still likely to be a process of incremental measures. Feinstein's amendment on assault guns, for instance, would prohibit the 15- bullet clip that the Long Island Rail Road killer used, which allowed him to fire two long barrages before he was stopped...
...about 60,000 jobs in its depressed aerospace industry, in return for supplying hardware and expertise. The U.S. and its other partners in the project -- Japan, Canada, Italy and the European Space Agency -- will save an estimated $2 billion over the same period, bringing the expected space-station price tag down to $29 billion...
Across from a small, grassy park dedicated to Greek and Irish immigrants, Joe Cogliano, whose grandparents were Italian, sells mangoes to Hispanic customers from the back of his truck. Children play tag while chattering in Spanish on O'Brien Terrace, part of a housing project built in 1939 for Irish laborers. The pungent odor of Vietnamese fish sauce fills a Southeast Asian restaurant where Giavis' Greek grocery once thrived for more than 70 years...
...past year, the beleaguered space agency has lost contact with the $1 billion Mars Observer, has had a shuttle launch aborted three seconds before lift-off and has run into serious trouble developing the GOES-Next weather satellite, which is three years behind schedule and now has a price tag of $1.7 billion, double the original estimate...