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...view flying as a godsend for bonding with their children's children. "Flying is my special thing that I can pass on to them," says retired nurse Betty Vinson, 64, of Prince George, Va., who took up flying at 50. Vinson takes her three grandkids, ages 4 to 13, aloft regularly. From toddlerhood, they have loved it. "Years later," Vinson says, "my granddaughter would talk about flying right through clouds and how they were not solid but soft like smoke." The first time Gary Spoor, 48, took up Garrett, 4, the boy was transfixed. "Look, Grandpa," he called, "there...
With grubby hands aloft carrying oozing pieces of Finale chocolate cake, with enough quesadillas to feed a family of five stuffed in their pockets, and with manners usually reserved for Korn concerts, Harvard students at the Lamont 24/5 party on Monday showed their quality. And it was abhorrent. The event was characterized by two attributes that are mutually exclusive at all other college campuses. It was in a library. And it was the school’s best attended “party” all year. If the Committee on Campus Life and Harvard’s Undergraduate Council...
...dubious as the shuttle. The two programs are each other's mirror images. The space station was conceived mainly to give the shuttle a destination, and the shuttle has been kept flying mainly to keep the space station serviced. Three crew members--Expedition Six, in NASA argot--remain aloft on the space station. Probably a Russian rocket will need to go up to bring them home. The wisdom of replacing them seems dubious at best. This second shuttle loss means NASA must be completely restructured--if not abolished and replaced with a new agency with a new mission...
...stylized businessman who appears on the fares, holding one of his now-eponymous tickets aloft, is a reincarnation of Charlie, the hapless commuter popularized by the Kingston Trio, a folk group, in a 1959 recording...
Despite the disclosures of flawed judgment and mismanagement, the families of the dead astronauts have tried to keep faith. Said Astronaut Mike Smith's brother Tony: "I still think NASA knows what it's doing." But the growing evidence that Challenger should not have been sent aloft can be rendered only more painful by the recovery of the astronauts' remains. "It just brings it all back again," says Dr. Marvin Resnik, father of Judith Resnik. The Resniks want no funeral service; they have asked NASA to cremate their daughter's remains and scatter them over the ocean, where Challenger...