Word: station
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Following the precedent of the Challenger disaster in 1986, it's unlikely that NASA will undertake any further shuttle missions or any other manned space flights for the next two years. One immediate problem, though, is the International Space Station, which currently has a crew of three on board. They might consider one further flight to bring that crew home - the other option would be for them to return aboard a Russian Soyuz craft, which isn't the most comfortable or the safest ride. Beyond that, however, the space station is likely to be left unoccupied for a long time...
...Handford was playing "Where's Waldo?", Spotting the Ninas was the niftiest Sunday parlor game. I recall the little thrill I felt on first hearing of the ruse, back in college in the 60s, from our Music Appreciation teacher, who was also a staff member of the Times radio station WQXR. I felt as if I'd been elected to a secret society...
...Honda has made the seats of its Civic and Accord two inches wider in response to customer requests. Car companies are starting to think ahead about this trend, perhaps because dealing with design problems after a product has been brought to market can be costly. Volvo recalled 65,000 station wagons for repairs when it learned that heavy passengers might short-circuit a heating mechanism in their seats, starting a fire...
...nearby cities, including Yueyang, describing the cases. Yueyang's police immediately responded with information on Duan Guocheng, including his alias Hu Cheng. Three days later, Wuhan's police found a Hu Cheng registered at the 719 Aerospace Institute Inn, a military-run guesthouse minutes from Zhang's police station. Zhang and two other officers burst through Duan's door and found him standing in the room in his underclothes. Duan attacked them, says Zhang, and "it took all three of us to hold him down." They asked Duan if he knew why they had come. "I robbed people," he replied...
...Desert is on the brink of collapse. For centuries its sandstone walls have housed what is still one of the world's few inhabited forts, and is home to some 2,000 people. But since its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries, when it was the last filling station for colossal caravans traveling the Silk Route, Jaisalmer has been in decline. And over the past two decades, the decay has accelerated. Hundreds of historic buildings have crumbled like shortbread and dozens more are rapidly deteriorating. The arrival of thousands of tourists every year has also exacerbated the ruin...