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...avoiding combat rather than embracing it. These men and their apologists had to destroy the ideal of the male fighter to justify saving their own skin. Manliness never disappeared, but popular culture stopped celebrating it, says the author of A Man in Full. Warrior images--the army sergeant, the astronaut--became "feminized" as women joined the ranks. And all the while, the male ego percolated...
...reader a chance to get into some famous person's head. Two current bestsellers probably owe their success to this phenomenon: When Pride Still Mattered, the story of Hall of Fame Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, and John Glenn: A Memoir, the life of the former Mercury astronaut and former senator. Both of these books are about people who lived lives far removed from that of the average book-buyer, making the chance to relive their lives all the more thrilling. In the case of the current bestseller Galileo's Daughter, although readers might not be that interested...
...this heady mix of circus and educational extravaganza that draws visitors to a spectacular new science center that opened last week in Columbus, Ohio. Called COSI (Center of Science and Industry), the $125 million facility is a jewel of innovation--a place that its president, former space-shuttle astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, says "persuades people that the words science, learning and fun actually do belong in the same sentence." The anchor for a $2 billion downtown economic-redevelopment program, the complex occupies a 17-acre site along the Scioto River in a once blighted neighborhood that is already brimming with...
...Rookie astronaut pin left by Alan Bean...
ITEM: Gemini spacesuit gloves (3) ESTIMATE: $5,000 to $7,000 WENT FOR: $18,400 COMPARE WITH: Shuttle astronaut gloves...