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...necessary to visit and colonize other planets? Why do we feel compelled to travel to distant worlds? Aside from humanity's innate curiosity, some say that in the future, there may be a need to vacate planet Earth. Says astronomer Carl Sagan, "There is a long-term historical reason having to do with not putting all our eggs in one planetary basket, given the claims that global catastrophes have overtaken our planet in the past and that one is eventually likely to occur again, even if the chances are very slight...
...turn our backs on a dream, no matter how distant it is and no matter how briefly we turn away. But the universe has waited for us for fifteen billion years; a couple more won't really matter. One day we will inherit the stars, but for now we should concentrate our efforts upon things that are a bit closer to home...
However, if the players did search deep inside themselves in their locker room during the first intermission and found their game, and if they can put out their final-40-minute effort for three full periods the rest of the season, the pain of last night will be a distant memory...
...call to humankind for peace and understanding. Come together to do this for him now so when young men and women shout out in hurt or anger from your streets or campus, "I am someone," King's spirit of freedom will ring back to them, not only from our distant plain, but from you city--a spirit flowing not from the "cup of bitterness and hatred," but founded upon the "stone of hope" King mentioned in his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963. His is a spirit needed not just one day each year, but for all seasons. Roger...
...shadow of a once vibrant community. Many were the elderly who could not face or afford the rigors of emigration. But most were the assimilated children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren--generations so thoroughly absorbed and secularized that their Jewishness seemed to consist of little more than distinctive surnames and distant memories...