Word: boosterism
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...galaxy. The case for going to Mars couldn't be more compelling. Sure, today's technology is not up to the task. We need to develop lightweight materials that can shield space voyagers from radiation and build spaceships that can fly from one planet to another without cumbersome booster rockets. But technology is developing at a terrific rate, suggesting that long-range spaceships could be carrying humans from this planet to work on other planets within the next 30 years. Ian Ward Paisley, Scotland...
FERNANDO AGUIRRE Banana Booster After college, Aguirre, 46, passed up a tryout for the Cincinnati Reds to join the city's top business team, Procter & Gamble. Good choice. The Mexico native orchestrated one turnaround after another, like transforming P&G Brazil from a money loser into P&G's second most profitable Latin American subsidiary. In January, Aguirre became CEO of Chiquita Brands International, which left bankruptcy two years ago but is still struggling. Aguirre's plan: focus on marketing and value-added products, like the company's new fresh-cut-fruit business...
Hall, the intercollegiate No. 4, easily dispatched Clare Whipple at No. 1, 9-2, 9-1, 9-0, and said that the match was a good confidence booster for the team after the loss to always-dominating Trinity...
Though Bush's proposal gives a booster-size lift to NASA, his devotion to the space agency is a recent conversion. He showed no great fascination with the space program while he was Governor of Texas. He never visited the Johnson Space Center even though it was just around the corner, and saw the idea of space exploration through the prism of education, his signature "big idea" back then. But White House aides say that after the Columbia disaster, Bush became intent on reviving NASA, pushing for a concrete, results-oriented plan and dismissing an incremental option that focused merely...
...magical routes to arousal. So far, Viagra-type drugs haven't worked for them. On the contrary, an indifferent partner who suddenly becomes amorous can ruin a relationship. Divorce lawyers talk these days about Viagra affairs and split-ups. Some doctors are prescribing testosterone as a libido booster for so-called low-T women, helping push up testosterone sales some 17 times in the past decade to about $400 million annually. Variously given as a pill combined with estrogen or as a patch, cream or injection, testosterone remains unproven as a sex aid. Meanwhile, it can cause oily skin, unwanted...