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...sign up for 16 hours of classwork and 35 hours in the air at an FAA- approved school to obtain a private pilot's license. A commercial license requires more: between $3,500 and $4,000 and 250 hours of flight time. But it is a cosmic leap from this to an Air Transport rating of 1,500 flying hours minimum followed by specialized instruction for particular aircraft types...
...collection of people who believe they are the fulfillment of a Hopi prophecy that said five generations after the white men destined to live in harmony with the great Spirit of the Earth. Karma, reincarnation, natural foods, meditation, tai chi, buddhism, astrology, yin and yang, ecology, TM, astral projection, cosmic consciousness, acid--anything spiritual or far out and freaky was right on with these people. I got to the gathering--7000 hippies in a cold, wet, muddy meadow in Boondocks, Oregon with dogs, goats and drunken people and a huge, disgusting pot of beans--this was not my ideal...
...discussion of black holes and white holes sounds much the same as a passage in the Hindu Matsya Purana, paraphrased by Francis Huxley in The Way of the Sacred, which describes Vishnu, in a cosmic context, as "the lord [of the] whirlpool that sucks back all that it has once produced and is the Death of the Universe...
...fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What...
...scientific meetings that considered black holes this summer, some 70 specialists gathered in Seattle for twelve days of cosmic discussion. One of their primary preoccupations was finding new ways of locating and identifying the elusive beasts, admittedly a difficult task. Says Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker: "The state of our art is as though you could only taste a substance and not see, smell or hear...