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...kids found out, the project wasn't just about raising butterflies. It was about emerging from a summer cocoon, sharing their excitement with their parents and bonding with one another in their last year before high school...
Among Washington journalists who have covered him--and especially among those who covered him as a Congressman and Senator, before he slipped into the cocoon of the vice presidency--the line on Al Gore is nearly unanimous. In private the Vice President can be an inordinately charming fellow: informal, enthusiastic, self-deprecating, with the kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin...
...lost the son he loved and the princess he sought, and, too, the chance for acceptance from the country he adopted. From the start of the fated relationship, the force that pulled Diana toward the Fayeds was powerful: beyond sharing their sense of rejection, the princess undoubtedly craved the cocoon made possible by Dodi's family planes and mini-palaces, as well as the glamour of his Ritzy life. And after years in a family repelled by emotion, here was a family driven by it, whether in its public vendettas or in its private Mediterranean moments. To embrace all this...
...tabs' pictures to say how invasive they are. And the mainstream press is just a step behind the tabloids when it come to exploiting the private lives of any public person for newsstand gain. Ironically, like Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Princess Di may have chosen Al Fayed for the cocoon of protection he could offer. His father owned the hotel they dined at, the yacht they sailed on, the villa at which they vacationed, the jet on which they flew there, a department store to shop in. And yet the very act of taking up with him raised her news value...
...first the J.P.L. controllers had no indication that the ship had survived this inelegant landing--and the engineers didn't expect one. The only antenna capable of transmitting through the ship's cocoon of balloons was a single, whiplike stalk protruding from between two of the bags. If Pathfinder landed upside down, however, the antenna would be crushed against the ground. It would then be at least two hours before the bags could deflate and one of three metal petals that make up the sides of the ship could open, turning the entire structure upright. Only then could a more...