Word: human
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stretch of prairie north of Fort Worth seems an unlikely home for the "industrial hub of tomorrow." Yet this is where Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot is constructing a 9,600-ft. runway that will carry mostly industrial products rather than human passengers. Perot and his son H. Ross Jr., 30, who heads the project, envision the Alliance Airport as the center of a 4,200-acre industrial park in which companies will manufacture products and distribute them by air freight...
...people are not prepared to be torn apart like this under the public microscope," warns Colorado physician Eugene O'Neill, an old friend of Hazelwood's. "I've seen patients on the verge of suicide over things like this. How much longer are we going to prey on this human being...
...because in those circumstances human nature becomes very much more visible. I was very lucky to have been in the camps -- and especially to have survived...
Three-quarters of a billion people peered at the murky images on their television screens on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong became the first human to stand on another world. To Americans, the spirit-lifting achievement was well worth the cost and effort. The quest to reach the moon had revitalized U.S. science and technology and yielded countless benefits to industry and the military. Most amazing of all, the Eagle landed only eight years after John F. Kennedy proclaimed the moonshot a national priority...
...moon, it is easy to see why the Apollo mission captured the imagination of the nation as it did. Twenty years (and more) of science fiction movies have been unable to recreate the silent majesty of the lunar landscape on the day it was first marred by human footprints...