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...Arizona Diamondbacks' RANDY JOHNSON, 40, became the oldest pitcher to hurl a perfect game when he beat Atlanta in May. Over the hill? Hey, the Big Unit owns the hill...
...very nature, leap past means to ends. World War II remains the model Good War, and D-day, its greatest day--one of those rare hinges of history that might have bent the other way. It had taken years for the U.S. to embrace its urgent necessity and hurl itself into the battle. The invasion plan, two years in the making, was still a mad gamble; though the force was overwhelming, the outcome was never assured. The 150,000 men who landed that June dawn carried a copy of General Eisenhower's "Order of the Day," which declared that they...
...modern Olympics in 1896, had been taken literally when he asserted that "The Anglo-Saxon race is the only one that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world's finest athletes hurl themselves downhill in pursuit of a piece of cheese or watching slo-mo replays of bloodied shin kickers or muddied bog snorkelers going for the gold. For, as J.R. Daeschner relates in his obsessive, down-and-dirty travelogue, True Brits (Arrow Books; 340 pages), they're the kind of thing that...
Unless there is some plan to pack billions of dollars into garbage bags and hurl them into space, the Mars project will be essentially a domestic spending program. The bucks will be spent in the good ole U.S., for the most part. They'll be used to pay top-notch technicians, engineers and scientists plus manufacturers--a worthwhile subsidy indeed. Frank L. Cooke Tallahassee...
Rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars to hurl tons toward Mars using current technology, why not take a decade--or two decades, or however much time is required--researching new launch systems and advanced propulsion? If new launch systems could put weight into orbit affordably, and if advanced propulsion could speed up that long, slow transit to Mars, then the dream of stepping onto the Red Planet might become reality. Mars will still be there when the technology is ready...