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...thornier than the design of the spacecraft is the problem posed by all the fuel, food and water such a mission would require. The Apollo flights to the moon were gas-up-and-go trips that lasted no more than 12 days. You could fill the tank and the larder once before you left and carry along everything you would need. Not so when you're looking at 14 months of round-trip flight time between Earth and Mars and perhaps a 1 1/2-year stay on the planet to catch the next Earth-Mars alignment back home. Even...
...have any chance to win in college hockey, you’d better have three lines, or four lines,” Mazzoleni said. “The fatigue factor sets in tremendously on back-to-back nights and you’ve got to have gas in your tank...
...years, since the U.S. first Army marched into Nazi Germany in 1944, America's military footprint in Europe has been in the West. Today, more than 117,000 U.S. troops remain - the largest noncombat U.S. military presence abroad. But times have changed since Soviet tanks loomed on the eastern side of northern Germany's Fulda Gap. Thirteen years after the end of the cold war, American troops are once again on the move. Thousands of troops based in Germany, Britain and other parts of Western Europe will likely be redeployed over the next few years back to the U.S. Meanwhile...
...best-kept secrets. In three magical hours, we'd seen just two other cars prowling around. And as the sun began to dip, accompanied by the snapping and cracking of branches, elephants?singly at first, then in tens, then in hundreds?came to the shores of the Minneriya Tank (one of Sri Lanka's major reservoirs) to drink, bathe and play...
...Americana Buddhism made me feel as if that was good. He knew that the only reassurance in the face of the Sendakian horrors of childhood--the uncertainty, the lack of control--is acceptance. His neighborhood wasn't a utopia--he lived alone in a small apartment with a fish tank--but a community where every type of person was nice to him because he accepted them...