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Proponents hail this remote corner of New Mexico as an ideal location for a spaceport: the weather is dry and clear year round, and at 4,500 ft. above sea level, jokes Steve Landeene, the spaceport's executive director, "the first mile is free." Physicist Robert Goddard developed modern rocketry here in the 1930s; in 1947, a mysterious object crashed to earth outside Roswell, making the town synonymous with UFO conspiracy theories. Thanks to the restricted airspace over the neighboring White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, there's also hardly any commercial air traffic. (Watch an interview...
...This should be the year that made clear the distinction between the publicity-hungry, irremediably ego-needy actual denizens of show business (like myself) and the way more grotesquely hungry and ego-needy residents of the show-business underworld known charitably as 'reality TV' ... It was obvious something was adrift, or ajar, when the phrase 'reality-TV star' began to be written and uttered with no trace of irony." --11/27/09...
...years in the business--a career that included covering the Olympics along with professional baseball and football--Penner shocked the sports world by revealing in a 2007 column that after "extensive therapy," he was preparing to begin a new life as Christine Daniels. For reasons that aren't clear, it didn't work out. Penner wrote as Christine Daniels for only a few months before reverting to his original byline. His death is being investigated as a suicide. Penner's editor described him as "capable of reporting on any number of topics with great wit and style"--a compliment...
...year is an eternity in politics, and Meg Whitman is prepared to spend what it takes. "We are running this campaign to win," she says. Californians have a history of taking chances at the polls, electing celebrity governors without any government experience. While it's clear that, under the right circumstances, such candidates can win, they can have a harder time governing. As Whitman may soon learn, even if aphorisms can pave the way to Sacramento, it will take more than platitudes to succeed there...
...matter how messed up Mary Karr's childhood seemed in The Liars' Club or how tumultuous her adolescence in the follow-up, Cherry, those two best sellers stood as proof that this howlingly funny writer had not only survived but also stayed sufficiently clear-eyed to tell her tales. We loved Karr, but we didn't have to worry about her in adulthood. Or so we thought...