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...were certain to discover places and things of immediate value to the new nation. Third, the Lewis and Clark venture cost next to nothing by today's standards. In 1989 NASA estimated that a people-to-Mars program would cost $400 billion, which inflates to $600 billion today. The Hoover Dam cost $700 million in today's money, meaning that sending people to Mars might cost as much as building about 800 new Hoover Dams. A Mars mission may be the single most expensive nonwartime undertaking in U.S. history...
Maybe memory has sweetened the bells’ tones since Herbert Hoover was president and Ordzhonikidze was minister of industry, but Harvard students trying to get their z’s after a hard Saturday night know all too well how jarring that Eastern tuning can be. The monks have already shouted post-Soviet hosannas to the heavens upon playing the bells briefly—but before they waste too much energy on their vaguely Quixotic quest, the monks should see if it changes their minds to sit in the Lowell courtyard and let the bell-boys (and girls...
During one segment he orders Kit Hoover, the amped-up co-anchor, to mention her garlic passion as a guest dubbed the World's Fastest Pizzamaker sauces a pie. The show's last seconds wind down, and Shapiro, eyes widening, suddenly stops pacing. Cold Pizza is ending to the sound of a shrieking microphone. Shapiro lowers his head; his kid just dropped...
...problem with many J.F.K. documentaries is that the biography overwhelms the history, but Revealed does a good job of connecting the two. J.F.K. reappointed J. Edgar Hoover, for instance, because the FBI director kept an all-the-President's-women file, and his illnesses--colitis, prostatitis, Addison's disease, back pain, a cholesterol level of more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show...
...have had the worst economy in terms of the unemployment rate since Hoover, thanks to the president,” she said...