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...Washington bureaucrat --TV anchor --Kennedy relative --Retired astronaut --Self-made billionaire --Feminist author...
...executives at Mattel were skeptical of an adult-looking doll's appeal to little girls, but Barbie, named for Handler's daughter, debuted in 1959 and has since sold 1 billion worldwide. After feminists denounced her as a symbol of objectification, Barbie took on such careers as doctor and astronaut. Handler, a breast-cancer survivor, later made artificial breasts for women who had had mastectomies...
Queen Marlena, once an astronaut from Earth, revs up her spaceship again to rescue the royal family from Skeletor—and she hints that she may know more about Adam’s secret identity than we first thought...
...hard to say what the effect will be. Scientists have their own questions about the forces at work early in the universe and their relevance to the cosmos today, but the power of a photograph can have an impact broader than science. During Project Apollo, an astronaut took a picture of the frail, blue-and-white Earth rising above a desolate lunar landscape, and suddenly people realized just where they were. Some perspectives changed, and that photo helped take the environmental movement into the mainstream. So when the first rays of light have crossed the universe and reached our souls...
...wanted to be an actor, an astronaut, or an anthropologist,” muses Mira Sorvino ’90. “I think I stopped at the As, for some reason...