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The World This Week.

Firstly, an Australian born NASA astronaut Dr. Andrew Thomas will be
living aboard the spacestation Mir for four months early next year. Dr.
Thomas is the last of the NASA astronauts who will be living aboard Mir
before it is decommisioned. It is a great honour for someone born
outside the USA to be part of a NASA program like this, and Prime
Minister Howard has expressed his envy. There is now a nationwide call
for John Howard to be sent to Mir, preferably while it's being crashed
into the pacific ocean.

In a shock move this wednesday Senator Cheryl Kernot resigned her senate
seat, and her position as Democrats leader to join the ALP. The
politician who claimed she was there to keep the bastards honest has
become one of the bastards herself, apparantly so she can more
effectively work against the Howard Government. When asked for comment
Prime Minister Howard said that he wasn't worried by Ms. Kernot's
actions noting that no-one could possibly do any more damage to the
government than he did himself.

 And finally, in California this Monday country music singer John Denver
died when he flew an experimental plane into the ocean. Mr. Denver had
no pilot's license at the time and had only bought the plane the day
before the accident. John Denver is not the first musician to die in a
plane crash, going the way of Richie Valens the Big Bopper and Stevie
Ray Vaughn, Unfortunately the spice girls are still refusing to take
flying lessons. 

Apparantly Elton John has offered to write a tribute song for John
Denver's funeral, and here at the world this week we have an exclusive
sneak preview of the lyrics,
	
	Goodbye country boy,
	 lover of bulk alcohol.
	You wanted to be rocky mountain high,
	But your plane it wanted to fall.
	And it seems to me you lived your life,
	Like a drunkard on the stage.
	Marrying  lots of young girls,
	Only just of age.
	And I would've liked to known you,
	I mean what I just said.
	Your engine burned out long before,
	Your candle ever did.

And that's the world this week.


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