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Name: Michael
Interests: anything but Eastern Europe, please...
Expertise: wandering and wondering
Occupation: Student
Industry: Europe
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Member Since:
1/31/2005
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For those of you not in touch with me:
I am moving to Rome on the 30th of April.
All are welcome to visit!
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| I am back in Glasgow. It's wet, windy and wet and windy.
I had a great time on the continent. Thanks Anika for the wonderful hospitality. Jonny and Chloe it was grand meeting up for Basel, hopefully see you soon. Poland was fun, a friend showed me Warsaw's nightlife and I learned the difference between Ostraw and Ostrava, much to the detriment of birthday celebrations. Christmas in Lithuania was splendid but rushed and Italy was, well, Italy, with a wonderful farewell from Rome with compliments to Leanne.
I'll post some pics when they come.
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| I'm off tomorrow to visit my dear friend Anika in Karlsruhe.
I'll be in Lithuania for Christmas.
Afterwards I'll be heading south.
You'll find me back in Glasgow on the 12th of January.
Ciao ciao!
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The drink (described as refreshing) is made up of Louis XII cognac, Cristal Rose champagne, sugar, angostura bitters and 24-carat edible gold leaf. Fine, whatever, but it also has an 11-carat white diamond ring at the bottom, so that doesn't really count as foodstuff, does it?
The buyer got it as a Christmas present for his girlfriend and the best bit of the story comes towards the end, in a quote from "social commentator" Peter York. I can't better it, so I won't try to:
"It is so gauche, so crashingly crass, that everyone else will see the buyers as barely literate, as one step up from a potato."
It will be one of those things that unite both the middle class and the old rich in a belief that the super-rich come out of some kind of primeval ooze.
The Observer
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Jon Henley in Paris
The Guardian
Thursday February 24 2000
US and Russian astronauts have had sex in space for separate research programmes on how human beings might survive years in orbit, according to a book published yesterday.
Pierre Kohler, a respected French scientific writer, says in The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure that the subject is taboo both at Nasa and at mission control in Moscow, but that cosmic couplings have taken place.
"The issue of sex in space is a serious one," he says. "The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the successor to Mir. Scientists need to know how far sexual relations are possible without gravity."
He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A project codenamed STS-XX was to explore sexual positions possible in a weightless atmosphere.
Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10, he says. "Two guinea pigs then tested them in real zero-gravity conditions. The results were videotaped but are considered so sensitive that even Nasa was only given a censored version."
Only four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance". The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag.
Mr Kohler says: "One of the principal findings was that the classic so-called missionary position, which is so easy on earth when gravity pushes one downwards, is simply not possible." | | |
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