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Astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shut down instruments they maintain aboard NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft for several hours yesterday in order to avoid damage from the resulting radiation...
...jockey. With his gentle, almost motionless style, he had a unique rapport with his horses and, said trainer Charlie Wittingham, "bothered a horse less than any other rider." In 41 years he won 11 Triple Crown events and an impressive 22% of his races overall. In 1986, aboard Ferdinand, he became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. A year after giving up riding in 1990, he was paralyzed in a car accident, yet within months he was back, training horses from his wheelchair and earning $3.7 million in winnings before retiring...
...Welcome aboard, sir. Clark's announcement that he was running landed like a rocket-propelled grenade in the messy bunker that is the Democratic presidential field. He's off to a late start, but thanks to an Internet-driven draft movement, Clark has the beginnings of an organization and the promise of millions of dollars. Making the rounds of Democratic salons in New York and Los Angeles in recent weeks, he has wowed some of the people who could gather millions more. Within 24 hours of getting into the race, Clark had a list of congressional endorsements more impressive than...
...wave of anti-French anger rising in the U.S., Chirac and Schröder are preparing for private meetings in New York this week with George W. Bush. Reports from Washington suggest that the Bush Administration still hopes to bust up the Franco-German entente by pulling the Germans aboard and isolating the French. But analysts in both countries say that may be beyond the reach of Bush's team. "The German political class wants nothing more than a reasonable partner in the U.S.A.," says Henrik Uterwedde, deputy director of the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg. "But an attempt...
...finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme to kidnap a besotted executive who reneged on his promise to pay her a million dollars for sex, Chris jumps aboard. In a country full of gullible suits and sluts, what could be easier than extorting money from a sorry lecher...