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...Hubble Rescued The Endeavour astronauts played Mr. and Ms. Goodwrench in space -- and on live television -- performing daring orbital repairs on the nearsighted Hubble Space Telescope and giving beleaguered NASA a badly needed boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST SCIENCE OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...syndromes and neuroses? If so, then Wilson's research says, Good luck! For him, the unconscious mind is designed to be inaccessible so that its owners can't fiddle with it while it's operating (not unlike those computer chips in late-model cars whose secrets even Mr. Goodwrench can't crack). Consequently, our notions about what makes us tick are just that, notions, and very often wrong. We might as well be guessing the number of jelly beans in a bottomless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Not Overanalyze This | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Democratic Leadership Council, the organization founded after Walter Mondale's 1984 defeat to make sure that a liberal would never get another chance to blow 49 states in a presidential election. Guided by "neoliberals" like Senators Sam Nunn and Chuck Robb, armed with a raft of fiscally responsible Mr. Goodwrench programs, the D.L.C. is dedicated to yanking the party back to the middle. But neo, the prefix that was supposed to make liberalism safe for Democrats again, has instead made them boring. If a liberal is someone with his feet firmly planted in the air, a neo-liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Neoliberal Blues | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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