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Aldrin scorns such plans. So modest a passenger spacecraft could carry just a handful of people, which could push the price of even a steerage seat to $100,000. Instead Aldrin prefers a concept that airlines using wide-body planes embraced long ago: carry lots of people at once and drive down the per-passenger cost. To get such an orbital airbus flying, he founded ShareSpace, a nonprofit company designed to help fund and promote mass-market space travel. ShareSpace's vision for cosmic tourism includes Earth-orbiting ships carrying as many as 100 people and clusters of modules that...
...these reasons, I suspect that as sex selection and other reproductive technologies become more efficient and less costly, they may be embraced by American families of even modest means who ask themselves, Why not? What was once unimaginable could become routine--and the link between the sex act and reproduction will no longer be seen as sacred. Ultimately, this may prove to be the real significance of sex selection: by breaching a powerful psychological barrier, it will pave the way for true designer babies, who could really turn society upside down...
...Ellen, forced to give up an all consuming career to nurse her mother (Renee Zellweger, in a wonderfully clenched performance). This reconciliation Streep encourages in the subtlest of ways. There's no apology for Kate's lifetime of good cheer and common sense, just an opening up of those modest qualities, so that her family and we are gently, unsentimentally embraced and enlightened by their grace and bravery...
...August, a month that included several gut-wrenching weeks, there was a net outflow of $5.4 billion, or well under 1% of the total invested in equity funds. Though this was the first such exodus since the recession and stock slump of 1990, the number is still quite modest when compared with the 4% that fled equity funds after the October 1987 correction. Last week investors pulled a net $6.2 billion out of stock funds Monday and Tuesday, but on Wednesday a net $6.5 billion flowed right back as the market bounced, according to Trim Tabs Financial Services. "There...
...prequel is a cinch to open in at least a "Godzilla"-sized 3,700 theaters. Analysts were also expecting "Episode I" to become the first film to break the magical $100 million mark its first weekend. Now, says a Twentieth Century Fox source, you can expect a more modest rollout, akin to the 2,104 theaters that ran the "Star Wars" rerelease last winter. That would allow Lucas to open the film only in houses equipped with state-of-the-art screening and sound systems. Of course, 2,000-plus theaters is no art-house opening. And, says Paul Dergarabedian...