Word: detours
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...engineers. If NASA history has proved anything, administrators say, it's that intermediate space goals can sometimes turn into ends in themselves. "We could easily get bogged down on the moon and never get to Mars, at least not in this century," warns Murray. That kind of long-term detour, says Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society and author of The Case for Mars, is "the same swindle we fell for on the space station...
...friend walking up the block, I charged toward her with arms outstretched only to realize when I was within arms-length that she was in fact a 70 year-old woman, now clutching for the can of mace stored in her hand bag. Making a quick detour to the woman’s left, I proceeded to play off the mis-fired hello by pretending it was actually intended for the only figure on the street—a parking meter...
...prescribed burns have the power to modulate the behavior of big fires. One branch of the Hayman fire, for example, stopped at the edge of an area where a large prescribed burn had been conducted the year before, and the Rodeo-Chediski fire, for its part, was forced to detour around prescribed burns on forest lands managed by the White Mountain Apache tribe...
...come to praise Spy Kids and to bury it. Robert Rodriguez says his third installment is the final one. That's a shame, because the first two were smart, genial family outings, and because the finale is a bit off--less a detour than a pothole...
...Back on the trail, we make a detour to ponder some mysterious ruins, perhaps an ancient monastery. Better known architectural gems include the remote Amarbayasgalant, a 275-year-old monastery north of Ulan Bator, and the 16th century Erdene Zuu Khiid, the oldest temple built in Genghis Khan's capital of Karakorum. We get lost, of course, then are rescued by a family that invites us into their ger-the traditional round Mongolian tent known to many as a yurt-for some homemade sourdough bread and yogurt. The family tolerates our photo requests, and we offer what we have-some...