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America has a space program because we want to explore the last remaining frontier, and in order to do that, we need a clear and ambitious goal. President Kennedy provided one in 1961 when he declared that America would have a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It would be a fitting tribute to these brave men and women if President Bush declared that the U.S. would send a manned mission to Mars...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: Ascending the Heavens | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...Thousands joined Islamist-led protests against a possible war on Iraq and a disputed U.S. bombing on the border with Afghanistan. Pakistani politicians claimed the U.S. had bombed a disused Islamic seminary inside Pakistan, but U.S. officials said that the incident took place on the Afghan side of the frontier. IVORY COAST Fragile Truce President Laurent Gbagbo promised to expel foreign mercenaries and stop aerial bombings, after government helicopters attacked a fishing village and left 12 civilians dead. France condemned the raid as an "intolerable" violation of the cease-fire between the government and the main rebel group, the Ivory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 1/5/2003 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Have Been | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...work she is doing is mainstream across the field. The frontier is where she is going,” said Steven J. Breckler, a program director for the National Science Foundation...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Psychology Professor Denied Tenure | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

...irony of Twain's reluctance to write personal, revealing songs is that her history is filled with examples of courage. If Loretta Lynn and Charles Dickens met while under contract to the Lifetime network, they might come up with the grim frontier tale that is Twain's youth. She grew up in Timmins, Ont., a mining town in the heart of the Canadian bush. Her father ran off when she was 2. Her mother Sharon and her adoptive father Jerry Twain, a full-blooded Ojibwa Indian, continually struggled for work. The five Twain children considered themselves lucky to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shania Reigns | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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