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...government announced that it would provide research money for a space plane called HOTOL, an acronym for horizontal takeoff and landing. It would be designed to fly at about the same speed as the proposed Orient Express. France's state-owned aircraft company, Aerospatiale, has more modest plans to build a second generation of the Concorde, the only supersonic commercial jet now in service. The so-called Son of Concorde would fly at 2.2 times the speed of sound, or about 9% faster than its predecessor. More important, the new Concorde would carry 200 passengers, double the capacity...
Architectural flights of fancy are one thing in concrete or (especially) dry wall, but who knows how to build in ice? As a structural material, ice turns out to be not unlike stone, but then the skills of classic masonry are scarce these days. Ice harvesting, an ordinary annual ritual when St. Paul built its first palace, is at least as arcane. The lost arts have been revived: massive ice chunks were chainsawed from Lake Phalen, floated to an underwater conveyor belt, broken into blocks (21 in. by 2 ft. by 3 1/2 ft.), / shaved, sluiced down a long wooden...
...prosperity preachers build on the Pentecostal faith in here-and-now miracles, citing bits of Scripture to proclaim that God has already guaranteed not only spiritual comfort but material prosperity and physical healing. Believers who pronounce their wishes in true faith have already received them, the preachers maintain, even though it may take time for the miracle to be realized. The shorthand version: "Name it and claim...
...time for the U.S. government which so long supported the Duvaliers to make effective investments in education, health care, and economic improvement which will help make it possible for Haitians to build better lives for themselves...
Government requires tough decisions, independently made. We can't decide to build "Star Wars" simply because General Dynamics takes our elected representatives out to lunch. Anti-abortion activists shouldn't be able to control the majority simply because they are a well organized minority. Furthermore, legislators need to resist the extreme demands of the farm lobby that erode our treasury...