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...there a way back to the moon? Not through NASA, which lost its clear sense of purpose after the Apollo program ended in 1972. The space shuttle proved fatally unreliable, and the proposed space station has been stuck on the drawing board for 10 years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While...
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...News of Nixon's Death," news article, April 26, 1994). I understand why, because most students have no memory of his administration. But since I'm a little older than most undergraduates or even graduate students here, I wanted to share some recollections of Nixon, from someone who remembers Apollo II'' signs in supermarkets. Some of this you probably didn't get in school...
...Greek mythology, Cassandra was a prophet who rebuffed the advances of Apollo, God of Music, and was thus given the curse that her prophecies would never be believed. The Gods of Pop Music would love to see Cassandra Wilson $ submit, and she sometimes responds to the pressure to seek a larger audience. This summer, for instance, she will sing the title track on When Doves Cry, an album of Prince songs performed by jazz musicians and vocalists. But even when covering pop songs, she gives them jazz depth. "I've gone too far into jazz to ever abandon...