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...Seton took the presidential podium, it seemed that every council meeting became a tug-of-war between political activism and providing student services--and it was doubtful that the two at the helm had anything to say about...
...widely read e-mail network, some astronomers were outraged. They felt an unwarranted repeat of last year's scare would be the astronomical equivalent of crying wolf and could lead to public indifference. But news of 1999 AN10 spurred other astronomers to track the asteroid. They posited that the tug of terrestrial gravity during the 2027 flyby could change the asteroid's orbit enough to threaten Earth during a 2044 passage. Indeed, say astronomers, 1999 AN10's path will remain dangerously close to Earth's orbit for the next 600 years. Maybe the budget increase will be passed by then...
...hundred car dealers, body-shop owners and other clients to a race, and they'll all get special access. Yet Gordon will climb out of his car after a practice run, and a growing swarm will be waiting to walk him to his trailer. Some of them will tug at him and shove things under his nose for autographs. In my first brief chat with Gordon, I ask if he's ever tempted to flick backhands at the jackals. "No," he says politely. "It's just part...
...Yeltsin or anyone else in the Russian government could refocus was the question now confronting Washington. For five weeks Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has pinned her peace hopes on what she called a "double-magnet" strategy: pulling Russia toward NATO's demands so that it, in turn, would tug Belgrade. But Administration aides were worried that in the current chaos, nobody under Yeltsin "would be left to cut the deal...
...Have you thought about a tug-of-war or bowling or some kind of challenge...