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Most seem pleased to finally have a building for themselves--and are willing to bet that, when builders put the final touches on Fairchild around Christmastime, Biochemistry's 14-year odyssey will have come...
...museum itself, a $11 million steel and concrete triangle, prompted some to joke that there were not enough memorabilia from Ford's brief 30 months in office to hang on four walls. That is hardly a problem. The political odyssey of the Eagle Scout from Grand Rapids is represented by full-size replicas of the Oval Office and the Quonset hut from which he ran his first, successful, campaign for Congress in 1948. Among the treasures: Ford's typed pardon of Predecessor Richard Nixon, an aide's memo suggesting that he not keep Alexander Haig as Chief...
...headed northwest toward the English Channel. Five hours and 23 minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...
Julia Phillips, 37, who won an Academy Award for The Sting, admits that she was using cocaine heavily while producing that other-worldly movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hers is a terrifying odyssey from the front lines of the movie business to a retreat behind the white walls of her Benedict Canyon home. She is one of the few celebrities who will talk with candor about a close encounter of the worst kind...
...crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after all, started out chronicling heroes. Homer and Vergil were only carrying on a tradition that started with cave paintings when they put the Odyssey and Iliad to verse. Praises of exceptional men were to be sung. News today may be little more than bookkeeping, closer to ledger accounting than anything else. But even now we respond, almost intuitively, to heroes. Maybe with a little mistrust, to be sure, but still intuitively. Even Fortune magazine profiles...