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BUZZ ALDRIN bravely wrote about his post-moonwalk nervous breakdown in a 1973 memoir, Return to Earth. He is head of Starcraft Enterprise, a California firm that promotes his ideas for reinvigorating the space program -- some of them outlandish enough to have earned him the sobriquet "the Nutty Professor" in the halls of his ex-employers at NASA...
With the malaise of nihilism, the impending doom of the breakdown of the ozone layer, the tensions which seem to fill our lives on a day to day basis, it is nice, and comforting to escape into the life a small Southern town with its innocent and simple superstar and forget. Happy viewing, and may your destiny be as magical as Forrest...
...this past winter there came a defining moment in the fight over the true cause of America's moral breakdown. It was the day police in Chicago arrived at a small apartment, opened the door and faced 19 children living in a squalor so wretched that one child pleaded to a female officer, "Will you be my mommy? I want to go home with...
Conservative activists are unmoved by images of Dickensian poorhouses, given the breakdown in families and the caseloads drowning the foster-care system. "Nothing could be worse than the current system," argues Robert Rector, a senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. "The current system has already pulled the family apart. The system treats having a child out of wedlock as a favored life-style that's deliberately subsidized by the government. Nothing could be more harmful than that." True enough, but Clinton's point man Reed disagrees with the orphanage solution. "It's the kind of goofy social engineering that...
...what would later be termed "a game for the ages," the two teams traded shots in regulation play, forcing overtime. but only four minutes into that extra session, the inconceivable occured; Lake Superior State's Clayton Beddoes capitalized on an uncustomary Crimson defensive breakdown and scored on a breakway, giving the Lakers the 2-1 win and eliminating the Crimson...