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...turns out, a wry spirit and big personality are not enough to move $1,400 mink-trimmed skirts off store racks. Last week Mizrahi startled many in fashion's orbit when he announced that he was shutting down his business after a 10-year career during which media attention rarely eluded him but strong sales often did. The final blow came from Chanel Inc., which had bankrolled Mizrahi since 1992 but decided to dissolve its partnership with the designer after three years of financial losses...
...Wallace fired himself into a larger orbit, kindling a Confederate defiance in ethnic and blue-collar Middle America. The later Wallace--chastened and penitent--claimed that the uprising was not about race or hate but rather about states' rights and the forgotten middle class. That was partly true; it was also a Vietnam-era class war against draft-dodging, policymaking elites. Wallace pioneered the fed-up anti-Washington line that other politicians, from Nixon to Carter to Reagan, took up and carried into the respectable mainstream. Wallace in a sense expanded American democracy rightward...
...idea of space tourism is suddenly hot. It has been 36 years since John Glenn dipped the first American toe into orbit; in the decades since, space travel has become numbingly common--essentially zero-gravity milk runs to ferry cargo up and down. But this very monotony has given Aldrin and others an idea. Now that visiting space is so routine, why shouldn't anyone--even a vacationer--be able to book a seat? Says Aldrin: "We're on the brink of at last democratizing space...
...wheel-of-fortune funding is not the way the space community usually does business, and Aldrin has been working hard lately to court corporate co-sponsors and round up other lobbying groups to join him in pushing his ideas. He admits ShareSpace may never put a single tourist into orbit, but he has yet to see an alternative he thinks would work better. The old way of doing things got Aldrin into space. It will take a whole new way to get everyone else there...
While such a bombardment process had been considered by scientists, it was accepted only after recent pictures were analyzed. They showed that the ring material indeed appears to flow from the rump end of the moons, and that the moons and rings orbit the planet at identical angles. "We have a definitive answer to the origin of this ring system," says Michael Belton, leader of the Galileo imaging team...