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...other two issues of this Walt Simonson run, 353 and 354, are more or less denouements to the story that begins and ends in 350 and 352. Still, they are highly imaginative and even funny, involving the team's tangle with a cosmic bureaucracy known as the Time Variance Authority...
...will it be? If the question were only that simple. Positioning oneself for Popehood is a catch-22 on a cosmic scale. To be a front runner in the race is, according to church tradition, a formula for losing it. "He who goes into the conclave as Pope comes out a Cardinal," goes the Roman maxim. Take the case of the Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 71, one of several so-called papabili (Italian for "Popables"). Castrillon Hoyos speaks several languages and possesses an attractive combination of real-world pastoral experience and inside-the-Vatican bureaucratic savvy...
...passengers. According to some experts and the anecdotal evidence of thousands of travelers, things are scary up there - and it has nothing to do with the potential dangers spelled out on the safety card in the seat pocket in front of you. It's about high levels of cosmic radiation, questionable cabin air quality, disease-causing microbes and cramped seating. Says Farrol Kahn, director of Britain's Aviation Health Institute: "Aircraft have been called incubators of disease. The airlines have a lot to answer...
...sunlight to push itself along. To a public raised on smoke-and-fire rocketry, the idea of drawing energy straight from space seems fanciful. To the people behind the new ship, however, the technology is not only sensible but inevitable, the easiest way to reinvent the business of cosmic travel. "This allows us to use very little fuel to fly very great distances," says Bud Schurmeier, a former NASA engineer and an adviser to the project. "It's an intriguing concept...
...over into our concept of the universe, massive complacency results. We are not nearly as afraid for our existence as we would be if we perceived the universe as it truly is, cold and hard, unfeeling, just as happy to see us pulverized by comets in a game of cosmic roulette as it is to watch us slowly incinerate ourselves with greenhouse gases...