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Although astronomers have been expecting to detect the presence of water vapor in the atmospheres of nearly all of the known extrasolar planets, most of these 200 or so planets orbit too closely to their parent star for observations to be made easily...
MARTHA STEWART, about a camel ride she took in Kazakhstan before watching the launch of a Russian rocket ship carrying her friend, billionaire Charles Simonyi, and two cosmonauts into orbit on a 13-day journey to the International Space Station. For Simonyi's trip, Stewart packed meals that included quail roasted in Madiran wine, duck breast confit with capers and shredded chicken parmentier...
...Universal Space Travel? One of the silliest prophecies I've ever read was in "The Space Cowboys" [March 5]. Aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan said, "Fifteen years from now, every kid will know he can go to orbit in his lifetime." Even the kids in Ghana portrayed in the same issue? And where is the fuel to come from? Surely there are better uses for the world's dwindling energy resources. Lars Sollin, lund, sweden...
...Universal Space Travel? One of the silliest prophecies I've ever read was in "The Space Cowboys" [March 5]. Aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan said, "Fifteen years from now, every kid will know he can go to orbit in his lifetime." Even the kids in Ghana portrayed in the March 12 issue? And where is the fuel to come from? Surely there are better uses for the world's dwindling energy resources. Lars Sollin, Lund, Sweden...
Before boarding a train in New York last weekend, I stopped at a newsstand to buy my usual travel provisions: a bottle of water, some Orbit gum, and a newspaper. Then, standing over the shelves of magazines, I gave in to a guilty desire and bought the March issue of Cosmopolitan. Whenever I pick up a copy of Cosmo, my immediate impulse is to pull the magazine close to my chest and to look around to check that no one I know is present to witness the act. This reaction must be a throwback to the grocery store checkout lines...