Word: moons
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However, there are—sometimes, somewhere-—reasons not to lament our depressing mediocrity: the sudden appearance of cowboy or slouchy or moon boots, the occasional glimmer of jewel tones and some one-off cigarette-cut jeans. Closet fashionistas (pun intended) and savvy retailers conspire to save the student population from utter ugliness...
...It’s not a fashionable school, but at least a fashionable item gets a lot of attention,” says Tina E. H. Rivers ’05, sporting a pair of moon boots she purchased at the Tannery. “I’ve gotten so many comments on them...
...possibilities back then seemed limitless, and it was easy for Rutan's generation to imagine they would all get to taste zero-gravity one day. It didn't work out that way. After NASA reached the moon in 1969, its focus shifted to unmanned probes, orbital experiments and a costly low-orbit shuttle system. The imagined future of Everyman as astronaut evaporated. This year, more than four decades after Shepard's flight, only two Americans have made the jump into space from U.S. soil--both launched not by NASA but by Rutan's tiny company, known for build-your...
...agree. For solving the problems of suborbital flight and re-entry with ingenious design, for boldly going where NASA now fears to tread and returning without a scratch, but most of all for reigniting the moon-shot-era dream of zero-gravity for everyone, SpaceShipOne is TIME's Coolest Invention...
...intelligent design may appear to have found tiny pockets of support in the scientific community, most scientists consider appeals to a supernatural designer to be an intellectual dead end. Over and over in our history, natural phenomena--lightning, the changing of the seasons, the nature of the sun and moon--have been explained simply by saying God (or Zeus or Odin) did it, only to have that explanation fall away as science provided a more satisfying answer. Maybe we really have reached the limits of intellectual understanding, but few scientists are willing to give up quite yet, even on seemingly...