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...squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture. Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges-or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs-will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges - or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs - will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
Dean's string of gaffes in the closing weeks before Iowa gave Kerry and Edwards their opening, but his detonation Monday night blew the race open. After voters had started to wonder about his self-control, the last thing Dean could afford was to lose it. And so, following the time-honored rituals of campaign damage control, by Tuesday his staff was looking to perform an extreme makeover, no easy feat for a candidate who is selling authenticity. He pulled down his attack ads, rolled out his wife as a softening agent and assumed a new and humble tone...
...years remaining before the most recent--and possibly still unreliable--target date for the station's completion means six more years of money and labor poured into the seemingly endless project. With shuttle and station operations consuming about 40% of NASA's $15.5 billion annual budget, it's no wonder the President's moon-and-Mars plan calls for no new component to fly until 2014. It's only then that the real spending--perhaps $170 billion, according to NASA's estimates, and probably much more--could begin...
...that after the Columbia disaster, Bush became intent on reviving NASA, pushing for a concrete, results-oriented plan and dismissing an incremental option that focused merely on exploring the outer cosmos. "Set the marker," says an aide paraphrasing him. "Don't leave it to interpretation. Don't let people wonder. It's not the cosmos. We mean Mars...