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...success came in 1781, when William Herschel found Uranus. Then came the discovery of Neptune by Johann Galle in 1846. Eventually, the notion of otherworldly life made the transition out of the pages of philosophy and fiction: in 1894, the wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell built his own observatory in Arizona to try to detect the life he believed existed on Mars. He never found it, but in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh, then an assistant at Lowell Observatory and now a professor emeritus at New Mexico State University, found Pluto. It was the last planet that would be discovered until the 1990s...
...YEARS AGO, SIERRA TUCSON WAS the model of a happy farm for substance abusers. Thousands of people from across the country came to the manicured 325-acre "campus" to deal with their addictions to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling among the saguaros and sagebrush in the foothills of Arizona's Santa Catalina mountains. It was a Cadillac of the substance-abuse centers, and a company-provided Cadillac at that: employee health insurance routinely covered most of the costs of the standard 30-day stay there. Today, Sierra Tucson is a different place. Where there used to be 313 beds...
...ANTI-AUTO-THEFT devices and increased insurance premiums are we to endure while we are winning "the war on crime''? I fear the law and order of today, as well as our so-called justice system. I would prefer justice and punishment a la Singapore. JOACHIM H. BARZ Mesa, Arizona...
...seems honest and authentic, someone who doesn't stare over your shoulder when he's talking to see who has come into the room. "You ask him a question, and he doesn't build you a watch, he answers it," says Dr. Charles Kalil, 82, a semiretired Phoenix, Arizona, physician. "It's refreshing to talk to a politician who doesn't hem and haw and has the facts...
...Wanniski, another New Jersey neighbor, faxed Forbes a memo late last spring about how it all could work. Forbes pondered...and pondered. He was very tempted, and very cautious, and so decided to do some market testing. Russo conducted no fewer than 14 focus groups in Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona, South Carolina and several other early states--a large number even for an established campaign."We tested the hell out of the flat tax," Russo recalls. "It worked really well. A home run every time." At the end of each focus group, Russo asked the participants if they would scrap...