Word: orbiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returns to earth after a long space voyage only to find everything changed. It was exactly that way for Sergei Krikalev. When he blasted off in May 1991, he was one of the proudest of elites, a Soviet cosmonaut. Last week, when he came back after 313 days in orbit, he found a different world...
...only hassle, said Okwankwo, is fending offsympathetic friends who think he's been sent intoresidential orbit...
...remote control, their heads encased in virtual-reality helmets. Don't laugh, they chide skeptics. On the drawing boards at SRI International is an inkling of just such a system, one that might someday allow a surgeon in St. Louis to operate on an astronaut in low earth orbit. Even better may be novel ways of destroying diseased organs -- through heat, perhaps -- without cutting into the body...
...1970s Brown the thinker was often so far ahead of the curve that he was in danger of hurtling into orbit. But in many ways the times have caught up with his fear for the planet and the people on it. Still, like Republican Pat Buchanan, he may have turned into the candidate for people who are sick of politicians-as-usual. If that's the case, it's a wonder Brown doesn't get more votes than he does...
...more he is taken seriously, the harder questions about his health and stamina (he has recovered from lymphoma) will become. Bob Kerrey and Tom Harkin by all ; appearances had failed to strike any sparks among the voters, and Jerry Brown still looked to be in a private orbit somewhere...