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Russia is not saying much about checking the laces as the wheezing old Mir prepares to end its life in a planned crash, scheduled for Thursday or Friday of this week. The 143-ton ship will re-enter the atmosphere in a flaming arc over the South Pacific, hitting the ocean as a sizzling pile of slag somewhere between Chile and Australia. But even as this final dive approaches, Mir's biographers are working hard to catalog the station's achievements: the 16,500 experiments conducted in its labs; the 600 industrial technologies it helped create; the 104 crew members...
...pack is Royal Caribbean, which in 1995 introduced Legend of the Seas, its first meeting-intensive ship. Since then, 12 of its fleet of 13 ships have been outfitted for work as well as play. RC's Voyager of the Seas and Explorer of the Seas are 142,000-ton whales that feature a 425-seat conference room, an ice-skating rink that doubles as a trade-show arena, an Internet cafe and a theater with a capacity of 1,362. Other players like Celebrity, Norwegian and Carnival have also jumped on board. Disney's cruise ships not only have...
...without a ton of work. Razumi, a 16-year-old freeta?the Japanese term for a person who isn't in school or working full-time?now dedicates her time to perfecting the art of parapara. Concentration puckering Razumi's pixie-shaped face into a frown, she tries to keep time with the fast-paced beats at Isn't It? "I practice every day and make sure to keep up with all the new releases as they come out," she says, her otaku-ness coming across more brightly than the florescent green of her zip-up sweater...
...Sure, Professor Mansfield known his stuff, but it's my T.F. for the class who's the real gem. This is his 14th year of grad school--all of which have been devoted to the works of Leo Strauss--so he's got a ton of experience teaching sections...
...U.S.S. Greeneville rocketed blindly from the deep like a 6,900-ton black torpedo, spewing ocean foam as its bow rose more than 100 ft. out of the Pacific and crushed the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru. "Jesus!" exclaimed Commander Scott Waddle from the attack sub's control room, as his vessel shuddered around him. "What the hell was that?" Some 30 sailors and civilians, crammed into the Greeneville's control room, watched in horror as Waddle brought the periscope around to reveal what they had just done: a television screen displaying the periscope's view suddenly filled with...