Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astronauts also discussed how the human body adapts from earth to a zero gravity environment...
Hawley said that once the shuttle reaches zero gravity, the body "is still preferentially pumping fluid" into the upper half of the body...
...seriously, Stein is wryly self-deprecating. Asked how it felt to be named special prosecutor for Meese, Stein said that at a time in his life when his other faculties were in decline, he was glad to be getting subpoena power. And despite a lifetime in America's ground zero for political partisanship, Stein has carefully avoided taking sides. He is not a member of a party, and he has never voted. "He says he's not interested in voting," says Mezines. "Maybe the right person hasn't come along...
...cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...
...rows of houses fronting streets and sidewalks. Downtowns have discovered that combining, not separating, different activities is the key to success. So is the presence of lively residential neighborhoods, old as well as new. Cities have learned that preserving history makes a lot more sense than starting from zero. It has been an expensive lesson, and not one that Le Corbusier intended, but it too is part of his legacy...