Word: ideas
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...that happen to people on Earth as they grow older. "I figured we could learn a lot if we sent an older person up, studied what the effects of weightlessness were and tried to learn what turns these body systems on and off," he says. And he had an idea of just who that older person should...
...husband's 149 combat missions and one five-hour Mercury mission, Annie had long since become accustomed to Glenn's doing outsize things and incurring outsize risks. In the eighth decade of life, however, she justifiably assumed all that was behind her. "Annie was a little cool to the idea to begin with," Glenn confesses. But in the tradition of a military and NASA wife, she listened to his reasons for wanting to return to space, familiarized herself with his mission and then, as she had done so many times before, proceeded to help him train...
...hero! What an idea! Not an older person who was formerly great, like a De Gaulle or a DiMaggio or a Golda Meir, but an active hero in old age. Fiction gives us such characters from time to time, but reality is too real. The flesh-and-blood old hero may need a special logic to return to the field of conquest. Try this on for size: So much of space exists in the past (dead stars shine). Why shouldn't someone be able to retrieve the past in the future and be young again by being...
...year off to "learn how not to drink." Taylor and Buffett were riding in a limo through a Midwestern parking lot "and all these insane rituals are going on around us. Winnebagos with shark fins on top. People dancing. Buffett turned to me and said, 'Fingers, I have no idea how it happened...
That's what the government was attempting to give families when it created the Education IRA last year. It was a good idea in theory. In practice, however, it doesn't do much for most families. "I would not recommend that any client save money in an EIRA," concludes Satovsky. Colleges have yet to decide how they'll count that money when determining aid, he reasons. Furthermore, in the year they withdraw from their EIRA, students won't qualify for the other generous programs created by Congress last year: the HOPE scholarship and the Lifetime Learning credit. Nor can money...