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When Marisol awakes these days from her bed in the Bronx, she is faced with the aftermath of apocalypse—streets where the homeless are burned, a moon that’s abandoned its orbit and the eerie absence of the world’s guardian angels. She must accept that God is indifferent and dying and that her world is quickly following in his demise...
...rockets and satellites, had gathered, along with a handful of journalists, for cocktails that night at the Soviet embassy on Washington's Sixteenth Street. New York Times science reporter Walter Sullivan was called to the phone and told that Moscow had announced that it had put a satellite into orbit. He hurried back and whispered the news in the ear of U.S. physicist Lloyd Berkner, who rapped on the hors d'oeuvre table until the hubbub quieted and dramatically declared to the unknowing and startled group, including the Russians, "A satellite is in orbit at an elevation...
...earth-encircling rings high above the atmosphere. And Van Allen has played a key role as a principal investigator in the first missions to Venus and Mars by Mariner spacecraft and to Jupiter by the Pioneers, and has served as a participating scientist for Galileo, which is still in orbit around Jupiter...
...never experienced the show as a child, there is something bewildering about the hold of a man who, like Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin, seemed to possess some kind of “secret charm” that drew children into his orbit...
...contrasts are there. Schools in the Texas-Miami orbit have athletes who never see class after frantic pushes to break 800 on the SAT, belong to utterly corrupt conferences (SEC football, anyone?) and basketball teams that don’t graduate half their players. The Ivy League does...