Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason to stay up late that night. I had already seen a full moon...
...really different stuff," says Dr. Francis Collins in his molecular-biology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Collins heads a mammoth effort to catalog the library of biological data locked in those threads, a challenge he compares, not inaccurately, with splitting the atom or going to the moon...
...probes have broken down en route to Jupiter and Mars. Along with the setbacks came a crisis in the spirit of space adventure -- a loss of vision and will to probe the unknown reaches of the solar system and the universe. "How do you follow putting people on the moon?" asks Paul J. Weitz, acting director at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston...
...what we need to be doing. NASA exists to do bold, noble and innovative things. You can't make progress unless you take risks." The television audiences that watched the astronauts perform last week were much smaller than those that watched Neil Armstrong's first step onto the moon in 1969. But even the most jaded viewer had to be inspired by the sight of six men and one woman, dancing through the vastness of space, doing a job that no one could be sure was even possible...
...writer for children (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen). His new book is about homeless children, and it matches the world's madness with the bitter fantasies of art. We see a frightening jumble of hungry, half-naked street kids, voracious rats, a huge cat-faced moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock him on the head, No says Guy let's buy him some bread." The happy ending is cold comfort: a ruck...