The boys in the International Space Station are back on earth in Kazakhstan. The Russians have turned Soyuz into a nice little currency earner, one imagines. It has been working a lot and quite well of late.
The Soyuz spacecraft, the workhorse of Russia's cash-strapped space program, boasts a stellar safety record. But minor glitches occasionally occur. Earlier this month, the crew arriving at the space station had to turn off the autopilot, apply the brakes and manually connect the Soyuz to the docking point after an unidentified problem prompted the craft to approach the station at dangerously high speed.
In May 2003, the first time American astronauts returned on the Soyuz, a computer malfunction sent the crew on a dive so steep their tongues rolled back in their mouths. The crew landed so far off target that more than two hours elapsed before rescuers knew the men were safe.
Now the Soyuz is outfitted with satellite phones and a global positioning satellite system. Russia also requests that the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan close off a large area of its airspace before the scheduled landing.
NASA has said that shuttles should be flying again by early summer.
Yes, well, Soyuz hasn't lost 14 cosmonauts in the last 20 years, has it?
An Odd Kind of Desperation
Marriage is a contract that is taken 0ut on men by desperate women.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Chinese woman living in Sydney has taken the unusual step
of advertising for a husband on a billboard outside a cinema in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Helen Zhou, from Shanghai, said she had tried Internet dating but found men did not want to commit. "People are happy to date but they don't want any commitment, only temporary relationships," the middle-aged Zhou told her weekly local newspaper, the Southern Courier.Zhou spent A$5,000 (US$3,700) on the billboard which has a large headline "HUSBAND WANTED" and a lists of requirements, such as age up to 45, good health, non-smoker and drinker, Caucasian, solid financial background and a good sense of humor.
"I'm not fussy," said Zhou, who describes herself on the billboard as a beautiful and intelligent woman seeking a "dream family with a fabulous partner."
"I guess I want a traditional sort of person, not really flash -- an old fashioned kind of guy, not one who spends every cent and doesn't worry about tomorrow."
So far Zhou's search for love has received few replies.
Aiyah. All those men to choose from in Shanghai, but she wants a caucasian in East Sydney. Ah, the ills of the one-child policy... has warped their fragile little minds.
- Art Neuro
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The Caucasians in East Sydney are wealthier than those in West Sydney. Particularly in that age group.
Those minds are not fragile or even little. However, psychologists have recently suggested that her chosen method is not likely to be as successful as unsuccessful. If a male doesnt ask the female, but is sought by the female instead, the relationship is usually doomed. Something to do with husbandry, which the young are so keen to describe as banditry.
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