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LOST & FOUND, PART I Astronaut Gus Grissom's space capsule, which sank in 1961, wasn't the only piece of history retrieved last week. In Charleston, S.C., archaeologists found remains of sailors who served on the H.L. Hunley, an 1863 Confederate submarine, while British archaeologists say they located the tomb of 9th century King Alfred, under a parking lot. And in Florence, Italy, librarians found an envelope with some of Dante's ashes, which, in a divine comedy of errors, had been lost for 70 years...
Curiously, if there was any group that was not fully able to appreciate this victory of adventure over science, it was the Apollo astronauts themselves. (All told, there were a dozen moonwalkers; with the death of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad last week, nine of them survive.) Before his death in 1982, Jack Swigert, command-module pilot of Apollo 13 (a mission that taught NASA a thing or two about adventure), noted that the very thing that qualified lunar astronauts to fly the missions they were flying disqualified them from experiencing them fully. Can you fathom the utter, hostile emptiness...
...psychologist caring for a boy plagued by ghosts. Winona Ryder confronts the face of evil in Lost Souls. In End of Days, Arnold Schwarzenegger must stop Satan (Gabriel Byrne) from taking a human bride. Johnny Depp stars in three upscale creepies: as a space traveler in The Astronaut's Wife, as a bookseller searching for an accursed text in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate and as Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Late this month Samuel L. Jackson will chase, or run like hell from, a pack of very smart sharks in Deep Blue...
...exceeded expectations in 13 years. It should be let go to rest peacefully. More efforts should be devoted to international space stations...The thing is bound to wear out, and that could be catastrophic if it was manned." --Pete Conrad, astronaut and CEO of Universal Space Lines, a start-up space airline
...when Simpson, the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), asked talk show host Oprah Winfrey if she would speak at Class Day ceremonies, Winfrey said no. When he asked Senator John H. Glenn (D-Ohio), a former astronaut, Glenn also said no. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell had the same answer...