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Landford, a former director of the Massacusetts Institute of Technology's innovative Daedalus Project, developed a human-powered aircraft that flew record-breaking distances over the Greek islands Crete and Santorini...
...really excited," said Langford, "It's a fantastic way to apply advanced technology that came out of Daedalus to a problem that has tremendous relevence...
Except in rarefied intellectual circles, articles that appear in the Cambridge, Mass., journal Daedalus (circ. 14,000) seldom stir up much of a fuss. But a pseudonymous piece appearing in the quarterly's winter issue is kicking up a storm. Titled "To the Stalin Mausoleum," the pessimistic assessment of the Soviet Union's ability to transform itself both economically and politically is obviously modeled after George Kennan's famous 1947 Foreign Affairs essay, in which Kennan outlined the concept of containment of the Soviet Union. While Kennan wrote under the byline "X," the Daedalus author identified himself -- or herself -- only...
...line views on the Soviets upset Bush Administration moderates? (Gates said no.) Or Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's tough-talking National Security Adviser? Others pointed to the piece's stilted, formal prose as persuasive evidence that the author is most likely a foreigner, possibly a Russian. The editors at Daedalus weren't talking. Neither...
...tried to land. First the tail broke off and then the wing. Next thing the pilot-athlete knew, he was swimming toward shore, where an enthusiastic mob surged forward to greet him. Champagne corks popped. Kanellopoulos good-naturedly signed autographs on the broken bits and pieces of Daedalus' wing. And the crowd had a new Greek hero to celebrate...