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...curiosity trends for the moment away from space and toward cloning, we may sense that in the transition the future has grown a little retrograde, at least from a moral and theological point of view. As the American space program began in the '50s, rockets routinely exploded on the launch pad and collapsed into their own ruins like defunct Las Vegas casinos. The nation's leading rocketmeister was the boy wonder of Peenemunde, Wernher von Braun, inventor of Hitler's Vengeance Rocket, the V-2. (I Aim at the Stars was the title of Von Braun's memoir; comedian Mort...
...every matching book in its database. Choose your title, type in your address and credit-card number, and service reps at Amazon.com's Seattle warehouse will find your order and mail it to you, usually within one or two days, and often at a hefty discount. Three years after launch, Amazon.com has 2.25 million worldwide customers, and sales that may reach $350 million this year...
Rock wants to make it easier for the next generation: he's helping launch the Howard Lampoon, a humor magazine that will be based at the historically black college and modeled after the Harvard Lampoon. "If someone would have given me all this when I was on SNL, I would have blown it," says Rock. "I was totally undisciplined. I pretty much have a handle on things now. No matter how good you are, you have to work hard--or you'll only be as funny as the next...
...course, since the target audience does not yet speak, we don't know what they do think--but kids plainly love Teletubbies. About 2 million people in Britain have watched it daily since its launch last year; it has been sold to 22 countries; and since premiering on PBS in April, it has swiftly landed alongside Barney and Sesame Street in the top five of the system's kids' shows...
...China aided that country's military. But the GOP may be reaching by trying to link the supply of technology designed to improve the safety of Chinese rockets to alleged interference by Beijing in U.S. politics. As Branegan notes, "If it's in America's commercial interests to launch American satellites on Chinese rockets -- as the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations all believed -- then it's clearly in America's interests to protect its $200 million satellites by making sure those rockets don't blow...