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Ever since Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, NASA has controlled our mission in space. It became a sacred place, untouchable, a museum open only to select government employees. Fewer than 500 people have reached space since Shepard; Branson plans to double that number in Galactic's first year. NASA's idea of progress is to return to the moon, nearly a half-century later. Last year the agency spent nearly $5 billion sending highly trained astronauts to the ISS, largely to ferry supplies and fix the AC and other sputtering plumbing. The new generation...
...hear a collective "Oh give me a break." Some worry about the possibility of "Swift-boating" to come. "For negativity to start this early is ridiculous but inevitable," says Megan Peiffer, 22, a Des Moines Democrat who works for a local nonprofit. "It will do more harm than good." Alan Young, 44, president of the teachers union in Des Moines, adds "Most folks in Iowa do want to hear and talk about issues. We're not as much into the show...
They came in first and second on “Beauty and the Geek,” but some people don’t think that Alan D. “Scooter” Zackheim ’06 and Nathan J. Dern ’07 deserve the “socially awkward” label...
...aspect of “Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln as the photographs...
...page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan Rickman and noseless Ralph Fiennes—are beautiful people who have fun dressing down. Yet for the child protagonists, good looks are a must...