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...Together, they will carry two pilots and six passengers to an altitude of 70 miles - the edge of space. Passengers will enjoy five minutes of eerie silence and weightlessness (floating somersaults are allowed) and 1,000-mile views in all directions before a half-hour glide back to earth. Tickets cost $200,000, and 300 people have already signed...
...spaceport: the weather is dry and clear year round, and at 4,500 ft. above sea level, jokes Steve Landeene, the spaceport's executive director, "the first mile is free." Physicist Robert Goddard developed modern rocketry here in the 1930s; in 1947, a mysterious object crashed to earth outside Roswell, making the town synonymous with UFO conspiracy theories. Thanks to the restricted airspace over the neighboring White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, there's also hardly any commercial air traffic. (Watch an interview with Branson...
...pictures of Earth from space...
...about money, though, says Farrell. Taking an unexpected turn, the author writes that going green is an aspect of contemporary thrift. Being mindful of the earth is a corollary of being frugal: "Being energy conscious at home, buying clothes at yard sales and vintage stores, and similar thrifty actions both save money and reduce our impact on the planet." Simplify, simplify, simplify...
...worst years of our life," a clear reference to the ideological terrorism that left hundreds dead in Italy in the 1970s and '80s. There was also widespread condemnation of the tactics of opposition politicians Rosy Bindi and Antonio Di Pietro, who have suggested that Berlusconi's scorched-earth approach to politics helped create a climate ripe for violence...