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...example, I’ve learned the art of choosing the perfect beach. Half Moon Bay is located right on Highway 1, making it the ideal drive along the ocean. The coast is shaped to create alcoves that make fantastic areas to look for interesting wildlife. Best of all, it is not nearly as crowded as most beaches. The tradeoff, though, is the weather: located so close to San Francisco, Half Moon Bay adopts the city’s sharp winds and low temperatures (at least by Californian standards). Santa Cruz may be a better choice for some, where...

Author: By Ashish Agrawal, | Title: A Tourist In My Own Home | 7/29/2005 | See Source »

...people and cargo into orbit, talk of grand goals might become reality. New, less-expensive throwaway rockets would allow NASA to launch more space probes--the one part of the program that is constantly cost-effective. An affordable means to orbit might make possible a return to the moon for establishment of a research base and make possible the long-dreamed-of day when men and women set foot on Mars. But no grand goal is possible while NASA relies on the super-costly, dangerous shuttle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

Whatever their specialties, all were teachers. They were growing bone cells and prostate-cancer cells and protein crystals, studying the effect of dust storms on the global climate and space flight on the cardiovascular system. Michael Anderson, who used to build moon houses for his sister's Barbies, once told a group of second-graders, "Whatever you want to do in life, you are training for it now." He worked so hard in college that he saw only two movies the entire time, but he wound up with a degree in physics and a chance to do what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Astronauts, One Fate | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...small and beautiful." He had asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for an Israeli emblem to take with him. And he borrowed a drawing from Jerusalem's Holocaust museum--by Peter Ginz, a boy in a concentration camp--of what he thought the earth would look like from the moon. Ramon sent his last letter by e-mail to his wife Rona on Friday: "Though everything here is astonishing," he wrote, "I can't wait until I'll see you all. Big hug to you and the kids, Ilan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Astronauts, One Fate | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...There'll be several thousand pagans in Melbourne celebrating this news under the full moon tonight." GAVIN ANDREW, Pagan Awareness Network spokesman, after the Australian state of Victoria introduced legislation to repeal a 200-year-old anti-witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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