Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...space looking at areas of science that could lead to cures for disease can't be ignored. It's there, but you can't put a dollars-and-cents price tag on that. It's like trying to weigh the cost and benefits of going to the moon...
People are applying the same sense of patient pragmatism to the country's homegrown troubles. Once frustrated critics asked why, if America could land men on the moon, it could not cure its domestic ills. Now they ask the same question about the easy win in the gulf. In the weeks just after the war, Democrats longingly predicted a backlash at home from expectations raised and then dashed. What would happen, they mused, when Americans woke up the next morning to find the homeless still outside their doors, the addicts still shooting each other, their schools firing teachers for lack...
...famously reclusive writer a la Salinger, Pynchon or B. Traven who lives in a rural hideaway somewhere within a 200-mile radius of New York City. Bill's household also includes Scott, his devoted fan, secretary, factotum and nanny; and ; Karen, a refugee from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church who once took part in an arranged group marriage of 6,500 couples...
...first proposed to put a permanent house in orbit, it sounded like a logical next step for a nation gaining confidence in its new shuttle, flexing its space legs and preparing to go farther. After all, if we were going to send humans to Mars or back to the moon, the astronauts needed a place to assemble their giant spaceships; if we were going to monitor large-scale changes on earth, scientists needed a platform to watch from; if ultra-pure drugs and crystals produced in zero gravity were going to revolutionize industry, technicians needed a place to make...
There has always been a slightly strained air to NASA's pronouncements about the space shuttle, like the comparison of last month's Star Wars mission to a ballet -- this from an agency that has been to the moon and skimmed the rings of Saturn...