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...Russia space officials still believe they can save the station they've got. In July they will launch another Progress ship, this one with electrical cables and repair equipment, and they are devising a plan for the cosmonauts to access the stricken Spektr module in an effort to tap the pod's solar panels and restore power to the rest of the station. Should this fail and Mir's systems collapse completely, the crew could abandon ship in a Soyuz spacecraft docked outside, though they've already had to plunder a bit of the escape pod's precious thruster fuel...
...second option was to accept their interpreted verdict of the nation and ever so softly tap the breaks on the hurtling Republican revolution. If they say "high," say "I'll jump as high as you want." Clinton, wisely, took neither opition. He forged his own path by looking inward and realizing that articulating and trusting in who he was all along was the surest path to success...
While Gen Xers may be avid shoppers and dominate the market for designer jeans and expensive sneakers, they are as skeptical of the media as they are of politics. The hippest ads tap into their hostility toward hype. "Don't insult our intelligence," read one Nike magazine spread. "Tell us what it is. Tell us what it does. And don't play the national anthem while you do it." Sprite rocketed from seventh to fourth best-selling soft drink after scrapping its schmaltzy jingle, "I Like the Sprite in You," in 1994 in favor of the slogan "Image is nothing...
...theory, the Internet allows anyone to tap into fertile fountains of fleeting information. Had de Tocqueville visited this country today, there is little doubt that the Internet would have taken first place as the (virtual) civic institution par excellence. Democracy in America could only imagine such potential for civic engagement. No longer limited by under-funded public libraries or the high cost of owning books, any netizen can strive toward informational parity with CEO's and government bureaucrats alike...
...stream of suspended fourths. The last of the five, "Der Musensohn" (The Muses' Son, a poem by Goethe), was a vehicle more for Goode's talent than Upshaw's--his capricious part intimated one of his upcoming Brahms solos. Unfortunately, the lace of technical difficulty left him free to tap his left foot loudly and even to more his lips to the words--Glenn Gould, anyone...