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Heard anything from America's manned moon base lately? You know, the one that was supposed to have gotten under way in the 1970s, just a handful of years after the Apollo 11 landing? No? What about news on the upcoming Mars landing, the one President George H.W. Bush called for in 1989 and should be deep in development by now? Not a word, right? And you're not likely to hear anything about that either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promising the Moon | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...most adorable idealist, Bruce was also a Christian socialist: "I think we should give all, some, most of our money to the poor people." Nick, finally, seemed to know both what he wanted to do ("When I grow up, I'd like to find out all about the moon and all that") and how to handle a TV journalist's prying questions. "I don't want to answer that," he said, as if the camera belonged to a paparazzo. "I don't answer those kinds of questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up With the Seven Up | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

...Futurama. I played opposite Richard Nixon. They're making a movie version where I will reprise my role. There are a number of people clustered in a certain age group who are quite taken with the fact that I once uttered the immortal line "I have ridden the mighty moon worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Al Gore | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

There's some good news here. Senator Inhofe will soon be replaced by Senator Barbara Boxer, an advocate of solving the crisis, as chairwoman of that committee. As to why there are still skeptics--there are people who believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona. Another reason is that some of the largest polluters are still putting millions of dollars a year to hire pseudo scientists to confuse people into thinking that this crisis isn't real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Al Gore | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...nose. They both stand about 5'4". Lech is married with a daughter while Jaroslaw is a bachelor who lives with his mother and a cat. Now 57, they came to prominence as 13-year-old child stars in the 1962 Polish film The Two Who Stole the Moon, in which they played mischievous but endearing blond brothers. Later, in the 1980s, they joined the Solidarity movement that would trigger the overthrow of communism across Eastern Europe. They orchestrated the 1990 victory in Poland's first post-communist elections of Solidarity's most famous son, Lech Walesa, but fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Double in Poland | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

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