Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historic events of this type are symbolic. Scientists knew long before they put a man on the moon that it would be possible. Why not scrap the project after the blueprints for the spacecraft and the mission plan had been written and all the key calculations had been completed? In part, it is because one cannot know with certainty whether something is possible until it has been done. Theory stands upon tenuous soil where there are not facts to back...
...usually enjoy your cartoons; I find them insightful and humorous. The cartoon of Monday May 5, however, "Why women weren't on the Apollo moon missions," offended me. Women today and throughout history have been denied the right to participate in innumerable endeavors, the space program included, because of stereotypical and wrong assumptions about their physiological needs...
...watching to ascertain that their hands are following their instructions. The flower is laid aside on the desk, its work done. The students are off now like hounds. They follow the scent to funerals, weddings, proms. One girl will remember lying in the night grass under a blue moon with her little sister. Another will recall a last dance with a midshipman in Navy whites. A boy will alter the scent to that of lilacs, and swoop back to a childhood Eden near his father's rectory...
LIFE ON THE ICY MOON...
...when Johnny decides after one night of bliss that he and Frankie should marry and further the race. "You're too needy," she tells him. "You want too much." Johnny refuses to leave her apartment until she shares his vision. Unlikely, considering that when the two see a full moon, he thinks instantly of love, she of werewolves...