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...modern, developed nation idolizes its founders in quite the way America does. If other nations have founders at all, they are usually mythical characters, like Romulus and Remus or King Arthur, obscured in the mists of a distant past. Our founders are authentic historical figures about whom we know a great deal. Yet many of us insist on turning these real human beings into larger-than-life heroes against whom we tend to measure ourselves. They seem to be giants. So we wonder: Why don't we have Thomas Jeffersons today, and if we did, what would they have...
...behind in his rent, behind in his classwork, doing too many part-time jobs badly--and that says nothing about his intimacy problem. It's dangerous for his beloved Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) to know he's Spider-Man, so he has to keep his true, agonized self distant from her yearning heart. Every once in a while, this affects his superheroic night job: he loses the ability to spin the sticky webs that permit him boinging passage through the New York City skies, and--splat! ouch!--he tumbles to the concrete...
...radar and a free-flying 705-lb. conical probe (the Huygens half of the Cassini-Huygens tandem), scheduled to plunge into the Titanian skies on Jan. 14, 2005. Huygens will make a 2 1/2-hr. parachute descent, transmitting data all the way. When it touches down, having made the most distant landing ever by an earthly probe, it is expected to survive for no more than half an hour. Cassini, designed to live much longer, should be beaming back data until...
...help for the downsizing headache. Moving consultants (or relocation specialists) focusing on the elderly have been sprouting up around the country and can be a godsend to those who don't want to wade through a move alone. Often they are summoned by adult children too busy or too distant to help parents uproot from a family home or from one level of care to another in a retirement community...
...Although the enduring image of the Silk Road is of treasure-laden caravans snaking their way toward distant and exotic lands, its real and lasting impact upon the civilizations of Asia and beyond is even more wondrous than the wildest tales of its traders. Perhaps it was this aspect of the Silk Road on display at the British Library that Marco Polo withheld from his detractors back in Venice...