Word: lunar
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...charged up and I'm off to the office for the first time in six months. Fortunately, the car remembers the way and navigates the traffic while I chat on my video pda with my brother who's vacationing at the Lunar Hilton. (The reception is fuzzy. Network congestion...
...Considering the recent history of the land of the Killing Fields, few countries have more stories to tell on film, but no one's telling them. Fay Sam Ang's film, which was released last month to coincide with the Year of the Snake?Cambodians also celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year?is designed to change that and spark a cinematic rebirth of what was once a thriving industry. "I think it will be a hit," says Sorm Sokun, director of the Ministry of Culture's film department. "If it is, we hope more people will want to make films...
...Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled Snoopy onto their helmets and the Apollo 10 astronauts christened their command module Charlie Brown and their lunar landing vehicle Snoopy, Schulz left his imprimatur on the Cold War's highest and lowest moments - the race to put a man on the moon and the war in Vietnam...
...Justice Breyer gave voice in his dissent to an illusion that is retailed all over America: that the votes might have been satisfactorily counted. (Yes, and the Commies will be crushed just after the Lunar New Year.) More likely, the Florida recount would have turned into a decades-long proliferation of suits and countersuits, like Dickens' Jarndyce and Jarndyce...
...Droids," she says, especially R2-D2. "But I was old enough to realize those kinds of robots didn't exist." Growing up, she considered becoming a doctor and an astronaut. But she never gave up her interest in robots. When she studied astronomy, she was particularly intrigued by lunar rovers, which are really just a specialized form of robot. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Breazeal went to M.I.T. in the early 1990s to become part of one of the world's most innovative robotics labs...