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...lost all the power that once flowed from the Spektr's solar panels. Worse, the other panels on the ship were also out of commission. The collision had knocked the station into a slow roll, tipping its huge, energy-producing wings out of alignment with the sun. Unless the ship got realigned, it couldn't produce power. And unless the ship produced power, there was no way to fire up its thrusters and change its position. Tsibliyev reported this technological Catch-22 to the ground...
...repertory theater] came out of my belief that you could not run a theater program properly unless you had a model," Brustein says. "We wanted to embody ideas that we were trying to instill in students in the theater...
...Unless a better replacement can be found, colleges need the SAT to differentiate between applicants, especially in the age of grade inflation. The College Board reported that last spring 37 percent of the 1.1 million students who took the test prior to graduating in June had averages of A- or above in high school. Without the SAT, universities cannot judge these 400,000 applicants by one standard measure. Giving added weight to extra-curricular activities is certainly not the answer, especially in a time of trumped-up resumes and frivolous clubs and honor societies...
...Unless the President can negotiate a compromise with Republicans on a plan to reform the IRS in the next few weeks, political commercials like the one Luntz dreams of will be saturating the airwaves come next year's midterm congressional elections. It's a prospect that scares Democrats all over town. Except, that is, for one of the most influential of all: Secretary Rubin. He knows that an anti-IRS bill backed by the G.O.P. leadership will move to the House Ways and Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that...
...recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise, Denver, his plane and experimental aircraft in general should probably be presumed innocent...