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...terms of the discussion about life elsewhere in the universe; it makes it much more likely that there is life elsewhere...real life, life that we would look at--if we ever saw it--and say looks like us," said Senior Lecturer on the History of Science Peter Buck, who is also dean of the Harvard Summer School...
...long way from being established as true," said Buck, adding that he brought a historian's skepticism to the subject...
...Most of [NASA]'s great adventures are well-timed" to precede budget decisions, said Buck, who listed the Apollo moon landing and "most of the probes into the solar system" as examples...
Already several studios are taking the obvious solution and cutting back the pace of production. But that won't be enough; they face other difficulties that will be harder to address. Costs are soaring so dramatically that it's getting tough to make a buck. "Every day I have two choices," says Peter Chernin, chairman and chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment. "One is to make a series of absolutely insane deals and the other is to make no movies...
...author knows this killing ground well, but too often his writing is fast and sloppy. A burning department store is "engulfed in its death throes," and streets are "rivers of flame." Rosso, at a difficult moment, thinks "the buck stops here." No, the reader reflects, it was Harry Truman who thought that. Rosso needs a dialogue coach, and his author, alas for what otherwise is an effective novel, needs treatment for tin-ear disease...