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...they'll be going up one or two at a time over the next several years. Altogether, the module and its science gear would have been too heavy to launch. The current space-station crew led by Bill Shepherd, the American commander, and Yuri Gidzeno and Sergei Krikalev, his Russian crewmates, will use the extra space for storage...
...control of the space station supposed to transfer from the Russians to the U.S. during the mission? Actually, operational control shifts from Mission Control-Moscow to Mission Control-Houston whenever a shuttle launches from Cape Canaveral. This time, though, the shift may be permanent. Since the first segments were launched in 1998, the U.S. components have had to depend on Russian modules for power and navigation. With Destiny in place, that will change. Electricity generated by 240-foot solar paneled "wings" installed in December will now power most of the station. And Destiny carries the computers that will drive four...
...Russian figure skaters can take a patriotic turn to Tchaikovsky. Americans can glide to Gershwin. But nobody in the skating community has heard of Xian Xinghai, one of China's premier composers. And that's a problem for Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the skating duo who rank among China's top medal hopes for the Salt Lake City Games. "If we choose to skate to the most famous Chinese music," says Zhao, "no one will even recognize it, which puts us at a big disadvantage. It isn't really fair...
...awesome array of technical tricks. They hope to become the first pair of skaters to include a quadruple-throw Salchow in their Olympic routine. But the duo has been consistently marked down for a lack of artistic flair. Judges look for the grace, fluidity and lyricism that the great Russian partners bring to the sport, a prejudice that fans of a more athletic style of skating have long criticized. Now an aggrieved Shen and Zhao have added a new dimension to that complaint: they (and their supporters) feel they are penalized because the style and choreography they use in their...
...course, Slavic 131: "Imagining Prague: The City in Literature, Art, and Film," examines the imaginary representation of Prague by Czech, French, German, and Russian writers, artists, and filmmakers from the early nineteenth century to the present...