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...last remaining frontier, and in order to do that, we need a clear and ambitious goal. President Kennedy provided one in 1961 when he declared that America would have a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It would be a fitting tribute to these brave men and women if President Bush declared that the U.S. would send a manned mission to Mars...
...President Reagan said after the Challenger exploded in 1986, “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” In order to turn America’s eyes skyward once again, and in honor of these courageous astronauts, NASA should rededicate itself to a goal worthy of the sacrifice they made—to ascend the heavens and touch the soil of another planet, bearing all the hopes and dreams of mankind...
...duty as House masters and members of a university community. They crafted a delicately worded e-mail that initiated debate and were not preaching or proselytizing. Their own viewpoint was secondary to the goal of encouraging their students to engage with the issue. We hope other masters are as brave as the Palfreys, publicly presenting their opinions on such a potentially divisive issue to stimulate debate in each House community...
...conduct an effective civil rights protest in Montgomery, Ala. But Rustin's greatest achievement was organizing the 1963 March on Washington, immortalized by King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Thereafter, Rustin never gave up his advocacy for a variety of causes at home and abroad, and was a brave and eloquent voice resisting the Black Power movement that raged in the wake of King's assassination...
...most people still thought that the mind of a newborn was a blank slate and that anyone could do anything if only he or she strove hard enough. And the link continues to set off alarm bells about what it will lead to. Many people are worried about a Brave New World in which parents or governments will try to re-engineer human nature. Others see genes as a threat to free will and personal responsibility, citing headlines like MAN'S GENES MADE HIM KILL, HIS LAWYERS CLAIM. Behavioral geneticists are sometimes picketed, censored or compared with Nazis...