Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That distinction belongs to Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez of Cuba, who was sent aloft with Soviet cosmonauts in 1980. Other members of the crew: Navy Captain Richard Truly, the flight commander, flying his second shuttle mission; Navy Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, the Challenger's pilot; Navy Lieut. Commander Dale Gardner, who will help deploy the Indian satellite; and Physician William E. Thornton, who will study physiological changes in space...
Solipsism is the belief that the whole world is me, and as Mathematician Martin Gardner points out, its authentic version is not to be found outside mental institutions. What is to be found outside the asylum is its philosophic cousin, the belief that the whole world is like me. This species of solipsism-plural solipsism, if you like-is far more common because it is far less lonely. Indeed, it yields a very congenial world populated exclusively by creatures of one's own likeness, a world in which Lincoln pines for his dinner with André or, more consequentially...
...executive with the nation's major foreign book publisher. "The trouble is, you can never tell which book will become a bestseller in Japan. A popular novel in America does not necessarily sell well here. I always trust my sixth sense." Among Hayakawa's trusted novelists: John Gardner, Dick Francis, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Wambaugh...
...Icebreaker, Gardner (8) 10. Heartburn, Ephron...
...Icebreaker, Gardner...