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...January 1972 Nixon authorized the development of the shuttle, a decision that Logsdon calls "one of the major public policy mistakes of the last quarter-century." As the naysayers predicted at the time, the shuttle was highly oversold. While a remarkable feat of engineering, it was highly complex and subject to recurring glitches that have prevented NASA from ever achieving more than nine launches -- never mind 60 -- a year. Worse, since it depended almost solely on the shuttle to orbit satellites until after the Challenger disaster, the U.S. has fallen behind in the development of expendable rocket launchers. More...
Hornsby explores different pop styles succesfully, but the sources are not hard to discern. "Stranded on Easy Street" takes its boppy synthesizer chords straight from Lee Greenwood, and "Carry the Water" uses the high-pitched guitar pick that has become popular lately (particularly in Little Feat's recent "One Clear Moment...
...serious contender in five short months by becoming a channel for rage and frustration against bureaucracy in general and the fiscally disastrous administration of Michael Dukakis in particular. He capped his uphill fight by narrowly corralling the necessary 15% of delegates at a chaotic Democratic state convention. For that feat, Silber drew at least as much attention as former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti got for finishing first...
MacCready's own thinking skills have served him well. He first won national acclaim in 1977 when his Gossamer Condor, a kitelike affair propelled only by a furiously pedaling cyclist-pilot, flew in controlled flight for more than a mile around a figure-eight course. For that feat, unsuccessfully attempted by dozens of others over the previous 18 years, MacCready won a $95,000 prize from British industrialist Henry Kremer. Two years later the same pilot pedaled an improved version of the ephemeral craft, the Gossamer Albatross, all the way across the English Channel to earn MacCready a second Kremer...
...biggest feat is finding a few innocuous ways of bringing up the generally unpalatable subject of class in America. Growing economic polarization, she argues, has made the professional class, which is inherently insecure, more smug and selfish. Much of her evidence involves incidental, sometimes lighthearted perceptions about how this uneasiness reveals itself. To escape association with a shrinking middle class, yuppies have learned to choose the baby bass en croute over the chef's salad, Italian knit sweaters over flannel shirts, running over basketball and handcrafted cabinets over mass-produced maple...