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...launch industry as a whole. During that time, three Titan 4s--direct offspring of the reliable Titan 2--were launched, carrying satellites worth hundreds of millions of dollars. All three flopped spectacularly--one committing an explosive suicide 41 seconds after liftoff, the others misfiring and stranding their satellites in useless orbits. Three other rockets--Lockheed's sleek new Athena 2, and a pair of boosters from Boeing's new Delta 3 class--also conspicuously fizzled. Three of the six failures occurred in the past three weeks alone...
Because the bill would have no practical effect, many gay-rights activists say it is a useless piece of anti-gay legislation...
...ticket stubs from the last five years on file. Want to know what I ate for lunch on February 25, 1997? Or what I was up to at 7:20 p.m. on April 28, 1999? I've got it all. The challenge is to select the useful from the useless, the primary sources from the endless reading lists, the major theorems from the pile of proofs. I've put it off until the last minute, and now I have to go through all of it an dig out what's worth remembering. But how can one tell what's important...
Over the years, I have developed many justifications for this poor record. I am a student who learns well reading on my own and figuring things out for myself. Classroom time was useless for many science classes where understanding concepts and solving problems on my own was all that mattered. And why should I bother struggling to stay awake through a 9 a.m. lecture when I could watch it in the library on my own time...
...tall woman wears her hair in disgustingly cute pigtails--belt out the dates and settings of scenes in incomprehensible British accents. They go on to mimic war planes, perform a bad faux jitterbug that's not even in Townshend's original score and basically stand around looking useless for irritatingly long periods of time...