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...have the ability, and with several years of hard work, we can have the technology to conquer the final frontier: space. With the Bush administration planning on cutting NASA funding, and the Russian space program in tatters, we cannot afford to wait for government to make the move. We must brave the new frontier ourselves...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, | Title: To Go Where No University Has Gone Before | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...every ancient mariner knew, traveling by sail is a simple way to go. Though the winds could be fickle and the boats pokey, the energy source that moved the ship was free, plentiful and renewable. Now the same technology that conquered the oceans of Earth may conquer the ocean of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting Sail In The Cosmos | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...title of Amit Chaudhuri's latest novel, A New World, is somewhat misleading. The book seems to explore the difficulty in translating a traditional Indian upbringing to a modern Western life. However, A New World does not substantively explore Indian emigrant Jayojit Chatterjee's struggle to conquer life in his new world, the world of an American academic in the Midwest. Instead, the novel is a celebration of the old world Jayojit has left behind. A New World traces Jayojit's longings for the old world of his parents' home in Calcutta, longings that seem to surprise even Jayojit himself...

Author: By Rebecca Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A New World | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...will doubtlessly leave the theater with much to think about. The play's vivid engagement of the themes of interracial and interethnic dating certainly beg discussion and debate. But in the end, issues can't conquer all. A Language of Their Own proves that love-in all of its hilarities, joys and frustrations...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chay Yew's Dream of a Common Language in the Leverett Old Library | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...Kill! Kill!"). The plot finds a group of six, not three, female agents invading the island stronghold of ex-government agent Eamon O'Reilly (swarthy Michael Ansara, best known for working on ex-wife Barbara Eden's "I Dream of Jeannie"). O'Reilly intends to use bubonic plague to conquer the world - unless he can be stopped by our bodysuit-clad, machine-gun-totin' heroines (who are, by the way, quite nicely coiffed as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astro Zombies and Corpse Grinders | 11/10/2000 | See Source »

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