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...NASA's Magellan spacecraft seems to have found one more horror in the nasty landscape: active volcanoes. Last week the space agency released the first detailed map of Venus and the most spectacular images ever made of its surface. The pictures offer the best evidence to date that a planet once presumed dead is actually a lively cauldron of geological change...
...self-esteem from multiple sources. He was a ball-park rat. There may not have been anything else for him to do. People like Rose and Levine and Milken seem like fundamentally limited men. In the business world, look at Peter Lynch, who walked away from running Fidelity's Magellan fund with the express purpose of spending more time with his family and charities. Likewise, Sam Walton, one of the richest men in America, who has steadfastly maintained a commitment to benefit the people of Arkansas, motivate his employees and live modestly. These leaders are stellar examples of psychological health...
...this sense, he united the Western and Eastern hemispheres of the world across the Atlantic. No man had done so before. Our traditional reverence for his feat is Eurocentric in essence; as the world's focus shifts toward the Pacific, the ocean of the future, Ferdinand Magellan and Captain James Cook -- the latter being a better candidate for the greatest mariner and "encounterer" in human history -- may assume the same dimensions for our descendants that Columbus had for our immediate ancestors. But in the meantime, we should not allow our reaction against the myth of Columbus as Renaissance Ulysses, Romantic...
Best Cosmic Comeback After appearing to be dead in space, Magellan got cranked up again and sent back the most spectacular pictures ever taken of Venus. They reveal Earth's nearest neighbor to be a caldron of recent volcanic activity -- not a promising spot for vacation homes...
...still in charge, followed by stops in Turkey and Greece. By the end of February, Air Force One is expected to be riding the billowy cumulus above Australia, headed for South Korea and Japan, leading to the dark suspicion that Bush may be trying to emulate Lyndon B. Magellan (a tag pasted on L.B.J. when he flew to Australia in 1967 and just kept going in the same direction until he was back where he started...