Word: earth
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...story of B.C.'s periodic lurches into A.D. has been brewing in conservative Christian circles for a while, but got its mainstream outing in the Easter edition of the Washington Post. The piece recounted how Hart, whose combined work on B.C. and The Wizard of Id makes him the earth's most syndicated comics author, bought some satellite dishes. The installers were evangelical Christians, and soon Hart was too. Around 1989 he began doing about five religious strips a year, usually around Christmas and Easter...
...That was very much in the script, and it was one of the things that captivated me when I first read it. Right before we were in production, I was doing this miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, and I was playing Neil Armstrong! So I got really in to the whole space thing. But what I most got from that that I didn't appreciate as a kid is how momentous that moment was for most Americans. For working people from Brooklyn; [incredulously] the fact that a man could walk on the moon...
Nisenson also pointed out that two of the discovered planets were within "the habitable zone," the distance from a star that corresponds to planets with temperatures roughly similar to those of Venus, Earth and Mars...
While the focus of Lost on Earth is on refugees and human migration, the book uses this angle to discuss broader issues in America's post Cold War foreign policy, paint a vivid picture of the horrors and atrocities still present in our supposedly "modern warfare" and convey the hopelessness and frustration of entire societies through the lives of individuals. Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Mark Fritz succeeds in writing a thoughtful book that should shock the average, complacent American into realizing that a world of incredible human tragedies surround an insulated, peaceful American society...
...movie-star: at the conference's closing session, fellow Nobel laureate Derek Walcott called Hemingway "the first writer to become a real celebrity," and W.E.B DuBois Professor Henry Louis Gates proposed that "for some portion of the 20th century, Hemingway may well have been the most famous person on earth...