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...DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, U.S. astronaut who flew the last mission of the pioneering Mercury space program; in Ventura, California. Cooper set records for time spent and distance traveled in space; his 191-hour Gemini mission in 1963 helped demonstrate that a future moon trip was possible. With his career cut short because of what he called "a lot of in-house politics," he retired from the Air Force in 1970 and became president of a company that tested and raced cars and pioneered the installation of jet engines. Once asked who the best fighter pilot was, he answered...
...passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove to be a hoax." When Gary Cooper turned down the Rhett Butler role in Gone With the Wind, he is said to have remarked, "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper." "Everything that can be invented, has been invented," announced Charles H. Duell, commissioner...
...godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity; self-reference and multiple, shifting meanings; and unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism, and the culture at large, was immeasurable. DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, California. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training - and famously brilliant at it nonetheless - Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper...
...minutes into the second frame, Candice Cooper put the Wildcats on the board with her 12th goal of the season and the first tally of the game...
...Center found nonviewers' opinions of Gore eroding as the coverage of his manner grew more negative. So for all the energy the campaigns put into preparing for every eventuality before the debates, the greatest debate may be the one that comes after they're over. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper with Bush, Perry Bacon Jr. with Kerry and Eric Roston with Edwards