Word: apollos
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...find Homer to be most perplexing. Could you explain the tension between Achilles and Apollo...
After a semester of suffering through large impersonal courses with all the other starry-eyed fresh types, I knew something was wrong. The only gods I'd met were Bacchus and Rosovkus, patron god of the Core. Where were the exciting intellectual experiences I had dreamed of? Where was Apollo or Athena? Hell, where was Aphrodite...
...ceremony commemorating the day 20 years ago when America's Apollo astronauts first set foot on the moon, President Bush last week outlined his vision of America's role in space...
Although inspired by the Apollo feat, Bush's program differs sharply from John Kennedy's proposal in 1961. Kennedy's plan to put a man on the moon within the decade was well focused and lavishly financed. But Bush offered no price tag and no precise timetable for the "journey into tomorrow" that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Given the parlous state of NASA's meager funding and morale nowadays, that journey could abort before it takes off. Some congressional Democrats wonder where the money will come from. Warned House majority leader Richard Gephardt, in a critique...
...crux of the problem is that the leadership Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson gave the Apollo program was not continued by their successors. That leadership gap may soon end, though. As early as this week, President George Bush is expected to announce his vision for the U.S. space program. No one knows what Bush will say, but some members of his National Space Council, chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle, reportedly favor a return to the moon, followed by a manned trip to Mars...