Word: wondered
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That's what the U.S. is starting to wonder as well. Joint operations aboard Mir were originally designed to give American astronauts space-station experience prior to the launch of a new international space station in 1998 and to keep the Russians engaged in a high-profile cooperative project. But a series of mishaps on the creaky, 11-year-old Mir over the past six months has raised questions about the station's safety, threatening to send space cooperation into what may turn out to be an uncontrolled spin of its own. Some U.S. legislators, reflecting widespread public exasperation, want...
...Tsibliyev is worn down and in danger of falling apart. He has been aboard the aging space station since February and has had to cope with nonstop crises: a fire, breakdowns in oxygen and cooling systems, a collision with a cargo ship and last week a power failure. No wonder he's suffering from an irregular heartbeat and taking sedatives...
...Index funds are also easy to track since they move in near perfect tandem with popular indexes such as the Dow Jones industrial average or the Standard & Poor's 500. And for three years running, returns on the index funds have trounced that of the average stock fund. No wonder assets in stock-index funds have increased tenfold in five years...
...Sting, a brilliant individual talent; 2) he turns out, like David Byrne, to be good but not great on his own and is constantly asked when he's going to get back with his old band; or 3) he is revealed to be so profoundly inept that his fans wonder just what they saw in this clown to begin with. Think David Lee Roth...
PEDALING PHILATELISTS First the Pony Express. Now the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. You may wonder why the Postal Service is sponsoring a three-year $5 million bicycle team when your check is still in the mail. Well, cyclists exemplify swiftness, and the Postals, managed by Montgomery Sports of San Francisco, have won more than two dozen races. This month the team is competing in the prestigious Tour de France. "We don't expect to win this race," says spokeswoman Margot Myers, "but we'd love to get all our cyclists across the finish line on the Champs Elysees...