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...sense of right and wrong (September); in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (due in January) by self-described "atheist-reductionist-materialist" biologist Lewis Wolpert, religion is one of those impossible things; Victor Stenger, a physicist-astronomer, has a book coming out titled God: The Failed Hypothesis. Meanwhile, Ann Druyan, widow of archskeptical astrophysicist Carl Sagan, has edited Sagan's unpublished lectures on God and his absence into a book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, out this month...
...Space Center, near Moscow, and the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., a think tank founded in 1979 by astronomer Carl Sagan and others. The two groups had long been developing plans for a solar-sail mission but got the cash to make it happen only last year when Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and head of the media company Cosmos Studios, and Joe Firmage, the founder of USWeb, threw their names and about $4 million behind the effort. "I had talked to people about solar sailing before," says Lou Friedman, former engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena...
...subjects too (if not, they rely on existing news footage), since the series does not aim for Hard Copy-esque lambasting. If anything, Biography is uncritical to a fault. An episode on Carl Sagan had movie producer Lynda Obst rhapsodizing about the astronomer's romance with her friend Annie Druyan. The sing-songy-voiced narrator seemed just as enchanted with the story, even though the reality was far from a fairy tale: Sagan was married and a father when he took up with Druyan, who would become his third wife...
MARRIED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, best-selling author (The Dragons of Eden, Broca 's Brain) and host of the PBS-TV series Cosmos; and Ann Druyan, 31, novelist and co-writer of the Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie...
DIVORCED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, author and star of the PBS TV series Cosmos; and Artist Linda Sagan, 38; after twelve years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who separated from Linda 3½ years ago, plans to marry Novelist Ann Druyan in June...