Word: xl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...departure lounge for commercial flights from Amman, Jordan, into Baghdad is made up almost entirely of men, sizes XL through XXXL. Most wear baseball caps; all have long faces, sitting silently. When boarding is announced they arise, and like buffaloes stampeding in soft slippers across tiled floors, shuffle into one thick, single-file line...
...heart attack 17 months ago at her home in Stockton, California, at age 52. Having missed out on space travel in life, Rhonda's husband plans to offer her the next best thing on Saturday, when one gram of her cremated ashes soars into the heavens aboard a SpaceLoft XL rocket from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico...
...telephone pole-sized commercial rocket that launched Monday from New Mexico had a lot more riding on it than just the high school experiments and cremated remains that were to be hurtled into space for paying customers. UP Aerospace of Connecticut heralded the maiden launch of its SpaceLoft XL rocket as the beginning of a new era of affordable public access to space...
...succeeded, the SpaceLoft XL rocket would not have been the first privately funded craft to make the trip to space without federal funding or infrastructure. Two years ago, in what space buffs call the industry's "Charles Lindbergh moment," SpaceShipOne ferried passengers to space twice within two weeks to win the $10 million X Prize which, coincidentally, was sponsored by the family of Anousheh Ansari, the Dallas high-tech entrepreneur who is currently visiting the International Space Station as a paying customer...
...Jerome Bettis and the Pittsburgh Steelers closed the book on a storybook season at Super Bowl XL in Detroit Sunday, the season of another Steelers legend was just kicking into high gear...