During the dive, which takes up to four hours due to the high density of the water (it is filled with certain chemicals plus air pressure to simulate the circumstances found in space), the cosmonauts in training practice space walking -- and may lose a few kilos off their waist line in the strenuous process.

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Over there, the accountants add to earnings a paper gain for supposed appreciation in the properties, a practice that in the U.S. would get them space in the cell next to Bernie Ebbers'.

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In practice, an animal that roams hundreds of miles in the wild can find itself contained in a space no bigger than a living room.

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He chooses to, in the pursuit of a more civil discourse in our public space, he chooses to try to practice that civility himself.

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The astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery today used a computer simulator to practice landing in preparation for their planned return to Earth tomorrow.

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Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".

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