Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says, "but what'll they do when the next crisis comes?" Though the new crew on Mir has been beset by their own troubles, Tsibliyev won't gloat. "If the crew weren't prepared, they'd be on the ground. No one gets a free ride into the cosmos...
...called samsara, each life affected by the good and bad deeds performed in previous existences, according to a system called karma. The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos. From the beginning, a practice of meditation was the chief mechanism to gain the awareness necessary for enlightenment...
...extraterrestrial isn't Daddy. That rock isn't Scooby Doo. And after all these millenniums of composing searing tragedies and monster-ridden myths, we ought to be old enough, as a species, to face the naked, un-Disneyfied cosmos...
...mecca. And in place of the old, ugly little traffic-island cum death trap on the corner of my tiny three-block long Greenwich Village street sits a new, brilliantly designed safe and elegant little garden. There are still homeless people sleeping in Abingdon Square, but someone has planted cosmos-flowers there too. I've never seen such things outside Vermont. Every time I walk by them the quality of my life improves...
Whatever shape NASA's future missions take, for now the attention of the agency and the world is on Pathfinder. The data it will be sending back this week may help us understand better that most profound of all mysteries: Did life ever exist anywhere else in the cosmos? Already Pathfinder has revived morale in the global space community. More important, it continued the only known cultural-exchange program anywhere in the cosmos. Mars and Earth, after all, have been throwing rocks and machines at each other for eons. Last summer an ancient Martian meteorite gave the creatures of Earth...