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...Luci?s sister, Marie, and Christopher joined us in Frontierland at the established afternoon hour. Christopher could not be coaxed aboard the final go-round on ?Big Thunder,? as he had just had the stuffing knocked out of him by ?Space Mountain.? After that third trip, Caroline and Evie could only be pried away with promises of more ?Thunder? on Wednesday...
...wars. Bush the son is careful to avoid coarse language about gays and lesbians. As Air Force One flew to South Carolina last week, the President made clear his opposition to gay marriage but added, "I'm not against anybody," according to Jim DeMint, a Republican Congressman who was aboard. "If some people want to have a contract, that's O.K., but marriage is the foundation of society...
...Number of Cubans attempting to escape to the U.S. by sea aboard a converted 1959 Buick. The vessel was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard before reaching shore...
...Some in the administration, like Secretary of State Colin Powell, graciously acknowledged the egg on their faces. Powell told reporters aboard his plane that his indictment of Iraq at the UN Security Council a year ago was based on what U.S. intelligence believed to be true at the time - a prospect rendered rather frightening by rereading Powell's presentation, widely hailed at the time as making the most credible case for war, of which remarkably little bears up. A comprehensive analysis of the fate of various prewar claims by the British American Security Information Council (http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Research/2004WMD3.htm#01) suggests that...
...since it was first proposed by Ronald Reagan in 1984. The project--advertised initially at $8 billion--is woefully behind schedule and nowhere near completion, and may well cross the $100 billion mark before it's done. No one realistically pretends that any commercial manufacturing will ever take place aboard the thing--a key selling point 20 years ago. Nor can there be much research on the effects of long-term spaceflight on human health--not with the small crews and relatively short stays the station can accommodate. Its current crew does little with its time but maintain hardware...