Word: apollos
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...Chinese into space and made China a first-ranked space power." The prestige that comes from a national space program are clear, says Li Jing, a retired Chinese Academy of Science astronomer. "Chinese people of my age have a lot of feeling towards former President Kennedy. Why? Because the Apollo project catapulted the U.S. into a scientific leader," he says. Like America during the last space race, China could expect a space program would lead to job creation in high-tech fields, dual use technology that can have military applications and heightening interest among students in math and science fields...
...strategy is often compared to that of the Manhattan Project, which produced the first atom bomb, or the Apollo program, which put astronauts on the moon. Some worry that it oversimplifies things. "This isn't an engineering problem," says the NIH's Harris. "It's a problem in which we know only parts of the solution...
...North Africa had taught him to think of as the one reserved for wiping your rear. That made it the perfect hand to bring painting back to another kind of fundamental place. The classical world that Twombly invokes in his art isn't the white marble realm of Apollo. It's the sweaty Dionysian scrimmage. Any of his early canvases ? can be a landing field of airborne phalluses, breasts and buttocks, of things squirting, and of brown excremental splats. In The Italians, a 1961 painting begun after he moved his studio to a teeming quarter of Rome worked...
...ninth, had a man on third base with one out and the profligate Williams on the mound -- and couldn't force home the winning run. That came to the Phillies in the 10th, off the bat of Dykstra, a nerveless sort who gorges on pressure. Rocky whupped Apollo, and it was Philadelphia that was gonna fly now to the World Series. No need for analysis. As the Philadelphia Daily News advised in a back-page headline, WHY ASK HOW? The Blue Jays, with their pristine hitters, are the Series favorites. In Game 1 they looked as dominating as any Apollo...
...speech with a rousing reminder of President John F. Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon - a challenge that was met, Gore noted, in less than a decade. "We must now lift our nation to reach another goal that will change history," he said. But the Apollo comparison, while great for speeches, only underscores how different the climate challenge will be. The moon shot called for focused scientific resources for a single target. Outside Houston and Cape Canaveral, most of us just watched. But decarbonizing our energy supply will require innovation, funding and sacrifice at every level...