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...Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams 2. Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 3. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis Presley 4. Memphis, Tennessee - Chuck Berry 5. Jungle Fever - Charlie Feathers 6. Blue Tattoo - Teri Joyce (Marti Brom version) 7. Over and Over - Frank Sinatra 8. She Said - Hasil Adkins 9. Honky Tonkin' - Hank Williams 10 The Wanderer - Dion
Like Adam, he exulted, "The world was new to me." And then he lamented that "a day came when I began to cease noting the glories and the charms which the moon and the sun and the twilight wrought upon the river's face." Yet when he came to write his novel, all the original wonder returned to him: "Once or twice at night we would see a steamboat slipping along in the dark, and now and then she would belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys, and they would rain down in the river...
...businessmen. Mostly, though, he promises change. As he streaks across the country in a Learjet, barnstorming at three or four rallies a day, he calls on his audiences for a "peaceful insurgency." Says Fox: "President Kennedy called on all Americans to work in putting a man on the moon. That was quite a challenge. But getting the P.R.I. out of Los Pinos [the Mexican White House] is an even bigger challenge...
...supposed to be like putting a man on the moon. Sequencing the entire human genome--spelling out the 3.1 billion chemical "letters" that make up human DNA--would be, scientists said, as challenging and rewarding as the Apollo mission that deposited Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface. But the comparison was never exact, and as the genome project approaches completion, it is becoming increasingly clear just how bad the analogy really is. Landing a human on our nearest cosmic neighbor was a straightforward achievement with no need for caveats or footnotes. As of July 20, 1969, nobody had set foot...
...that's perhaps the most significant difference between the genome project and the first moon landing. The latter was a clean, well-defined achievement. But more than 30 years after Neil Armstrong's dusty first step, space travel has gone pretty much nowhere. Thirty years from now, our understanding of the human organism and its various ills is likely to be transformed beyond recognition...