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...missed you,” it lacks some of the subtlety of other presidents’ playful poems—one is reminded of John Quincy Adams’ (Class of 1787) translations of Horace (“What though he plough the billowy deep/ By lunar light, or solar./ Meet the resistless Simoon’s sweep,/ Or iceberg circumpolar.”)—still, it is good to know that our president has some poetry in him. Making the assumption that, like most of his output, the president’s poetry is overseen...
...Koreans, who in recent years have seized pop-film primacy from Hong Kong, make the most of their borrowings from other cultures. Jang Jun Hwan's Save the Green Planet! has a paranoid science-fiction premise: that aliens are to take over Earth at the next lunar eclipse and that, our deranged hero believes, they use their hair to broadcast telepathic signals. You've heard this before, possibly from someone muttering next to you on a bus. But then the madness escalates: for a while you think the movie is going crazy; then you realize that the insanity is contagious...
...will send a satellite around the moon by 2006, land a robotic explorer several years later and, perhaps as soon as a decade from now, culminate in a moonwalk. After that, China wants to build a space station and "establish a base on the moon," the head of the lunar expedition program, Ouyang Ziyuan, has told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life." This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom...
Gerald Stanley Hawkins, a British-born astronomer who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories and first theorized that Stonehenge was created by Neolithic people to track solar and lunar movements, died May 26 at his farm in Virginia...
This year the stargazers will have more than ever to shoot. Lunar eclipses will occur on May 16 and Nov. 9. And in August, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in at least 50,000 years. Amateur astronomers, already drunk on the sky, are likely to get giddier still. "There's a mind-stretching aspect to it," says Berman. "You look through a telescope and don't have to say a thing." The sky, as always, is perfectly capable of speaking for itself. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Nancy Harbert/Fort Davis, Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral...