Running low on Tang, too: After two other missions to resupply the International Space Station failed, Russia launched a supply craft carrying oxygen, food, water and other supplies.
We won’t say the astronauts were getting desperate, but they were down to the last remaining pages of a Scott Turow paperback that one of them brought up.
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It’s Greek to me: Greeks, who are being asked to vote in a referendum on their future role in the European Union and whether to keep the euro as their currency, are scratching their heads over the ballot language: “Should the plan of agreement, which was submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the Eurogroup of 25.06.2015 and is comprised of two parts that constitute their unified proposal be accepted?”
Considering how long Greeks have had to perfect this democracy stuff you’d think they would have figured out how to write a ballot measure by now.
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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1845, Henry David Thoreau began his two-year experiment in simpler living at Walden Pond.
Thoreau wrote that he enjoyed the quiet and solitude, but his cell reception was lousy and he never could figure out his neighbor’s Wi-Fi password.
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