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...that had been 20 years ago and a quarter-billion kilometers away. The playback came to an end; sound, vision, the scent of unknown flowers and the gentle touch of the wind slowly faded. Suddenly, he was back in this cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened...
...This is Captain Singh, space tug Goliath. First of all, let me say how glad we are that the Elders of Chrislam have identified the saboteurs and handed them over to ASTROPOL...
...Democrat-controlled legislature wearily acceded to most of Republican Governor Pete Wilson's hard-nosed school-spending cuts and at last produced a balanced $57.4 billion state budget. Wilson's signature at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, half an hour after the approving vote, concluded a fiscal tug-of-war that had locked the state in financial limbo for 63 days. Out of cash since July 1, Sacramento issued 1.5 million IOUS worth a total of $3.4 billion -- at least when state employees or dependent-care workers could find a bank willing to cash them. Among those...
...parents poured what resources and energy they had left into high schools, hoping to give their children a better life. About 82% of Americans now graduate from high school. There are 150 million grads alive and aging, and most of them at one time or another feel the inner tug and will go to a reunion, which in reality is a rendezvous with memory...
...evangelical support, the Republicans must stoke the anger of people like Smith. To woo evangelicals, the Democrats must convince them that Clinton and Gore are not only moderate but better able than their rivals to deal with the real problems of the middle class. The stakes in this religious tug-of-war are high: the Southern Baptist Convention alone boasts 15 million members. Four years ago, the white evangelical vote was nearly 20% of the electorate...