Word: righting
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...come an American is in command? How did he get the job? If anyone has a right to talk of the station as a long journey, it's space station commander Jim Shepherd, or "Shep" as he is known to all, including wife Beth and Russian ground controllers (who pronounce it "Ship"). Shepherd, 51, joined the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, then the only route to commanding a space mission. Poor eyesight ended that dream, so he became a frogman and used that as a stepping-stone to the Astronaut Corps, but as a mission specialist, not a commander...
...statewide ballot will mandate the creation of a quality, patient-centered healthcare system accessible to all residents of the Commonwealth by July 2002. It will call for an immediate moratorium against for-profit corporate acquisition of not-for-profit hospitals and HMOs. More importantly, it will restore the patients right to choose his or her health and mental health professionals The initiative calls for at least 90 percent of all premiums to be used for patient care, public health, and training/research, and no more than 10 percent for administrative costs, with simpler paperwork and administration. These fundamental reforms...
...53rd minute, sophomore midfielder Orly Ripmaster served a ball from the right sideline to Costello, stationed in front of the goal. She flicked a pass on to super sophomore Joey Yenne, who rifled the ball past the outstretched hands of the Hartford goalie for the equalizer...
...everything right today, so a loss is so hard to take," Costello said. "Our defense was tough, but Hartford is a good team and they...
...seemed off for a long time now, like an untuned engine - unsocialized, unmodulated, the adjustments wrong on the carburetor. Why does he run around like that? Unsafe at any speed, you might say. Americans know how to listen to an engine, and the something-not-quite-right that they hear in Gore's accounts for the trouble he's in now. Call "Car Talk" and discuss the problem with Click and Clack. Someone told me yesterday that Gore acts like a kid who was home-schooled, and suffers in consequence from some lack of social instinct, from some inadequate peer...