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...plan makes good, hard engineering sense, but as always with NASA, the problem is less in the engineering than in the politics. For one thing, the agency says it will take no more than $104 billion over 13 years to pull the project off, necessitating no increase in NASA funding. That sounds like way too free a lunch. The next manned NASA program that comes in on time and under budget will be the first. The space station-easily NASA's biggest fiscal and political disaster-will cost more than 12 times its original projections...
What is it about the pull of the moon that holds Hanks fast? Why does a high-powered Hollywood player with the muscle to tackle pretty much any production he wants keep returning to his lunar love...
...time wound down late in the contest, Harvard began to pull off the throttle and took most of its starters out of the game. Nevertheless, the Crimson maintained its defensive focus and finished out its first shutout of the season with a number of nonstarters on the field...
...Green Berets pursue them onto Route Barracuda. Fire fights rage from one side of the street to the other, the combatants as close as 55 yards apart. Bradleys from Red Platoon pull forward, pounding the enemy firing positions; then the insurgents shift buildings and fire from new locations. Only after an Apache attack helicopter sends missiles into two insurgent buildings does the firing stop...
...Berman, the decision to spend more time in Europe is the latest pull in a personal tug-of-war between finance and foreign language...