Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leonardo da Vinci The natural mysteries that fascinated Leonardo--from why the sky is blue to why the moon shines--serve as the framework for this wonderful scientific biography. ($35; Corbis...
...Stine. Kids nine and up can explore a haunted village and solve clues as they try to find a way out. Video clips of the cd-rom's main character, Lizzy, and her friends add a realistic touch to the adventure, while visits to haunts like the Full Moon Cafe--with its menu of scrambled brains and blood pudding--add to the eeriness. The game mixes parent-stumping logic puzzles with a rich landscape that kids will find endlessly intriguing. ($44.95; Dreamworks Interactive...
...good and shrewd observer. He sees the origins of today's political attitudes--the Westerners' reflexive contempt for environmentalism and genial hatred of the Federal Government--in the homesteaders' ordeal by hailstorm and bankruptcy. But what makes Bad Land exceptional, on a level with William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and PrairyErth, is a pervasive sense of yearning. The author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would have found himself in Montana by 1908, driving fence posts with...
...this story is the best "science" can come up with, we had better get some new scientists. Perhaps we should ascribe sunspots or the dark of the moon as additional reasons for mutations. Soon we'll be back in the Middle Ages. Surely one question would be, Has this happened to other aquatic life? If not, why just frogs? I can tell you that abnormalities have occurred in humans forever. Look at the fossil records. DONALD BRADLEY Plainfield, New Hampshire
...premise, I find a volume of John F. Kennedy's collected speeches and leafing through it, a striking difference emerges between his approach and Clinton's: when describing his plans for the nation, Kennedy weaves in words like "costs," "disadvantages" and "burdens." "I believe we should go to the moon," he said during a May 25, 1961, speech. "But I think every citizen as well as the members of Congress should consider the matter carefully.... It is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing...that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space unless...