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...With the two countries mired in a state of low-grade tension, it's not surprising that their efforts to be (and be seen as) the region's heavyweight have entered a new and higher frontier. Both countries are focusing on increasingly visible and expensive manned missions and unmanned lunar landings within the next two decades. Space exploration is one area of national endeavor where developing China, the third nation to put a man in orbit around Earth, is not scrambling to catch up with its wealthier, more technologically advanced rival. Make no mistake, says Joan Johnson-Freese, the chair...
...President cooked up," the adviser told TIME. "Andy knew it would appeal to the President because he loves appointing his own people and being supersecret and stealthy about it." Relations between Rove and Card have always been strained, and this adviser said the nomination has reignited the tension. Another Republican involved said it reflected Bush's isolation. "Somebody just like her should have told him, 'Mr. President, no. This is a mistake.' But he picked the picker, so there was no one there to tell...
Finally, flexibility and balance training are increasingly important as the body ages. Aches and pains are high on the list of complaints in old age. Many of them are avoidable, the result of chronic muscle tension and stiffness of joints; simple flexibility training can prevent these by toning muscles and keeping joints lubricated. Some of this you do whenever you stretch. If you watch dogs and cats, you'll get an idea of how natural it is. The general principle is simple: whenever the body has been in one position for a while, it is good to briefly stretch...
...fame was largely due to his masterful painting of scenes charged with emotion. Much of it was sexual tension: while female models did not seem to arouse any particular passion in the painter, young boys with dreamy and inviting looks are a recurrent theme in his work...
Similarly frustrating is the resolution of romantic tension in “Shave” vs. “Were-Rabbit.” In the former, the mutual attraction between Wallace and his lady-friend is bittersweetly cleft when she reveals her aversion to cheese, evoking the unresolved disquiet that eloquently capped the second season of BBC’s “The Office.” “Were-Rabbit” is more akin to the subsequent “Office Christmas Special,” with the romance subplot concluded in clich?...