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David Spergel watched with particular interest one balmy afternoon this past June when a Delta rocket roared into space from Cape Canaveral, carrying an 1,800-lb. satellite on a mission to probe the outer edges of the universe. Not only did the 40-year-old Princeton astrophysicist expect to spend the next few months deciphering the data that the Microwave Anisotropy Probe beams back from space but he was also part of the team that dreamed up the mission and designed the satellite that would carry...
...part of my job, I gave tours of the Capitol and was privileged enough to receive a private tour of the dome, gazing down from the top of the inner dome on the rotunda below, and even heading outside to look down on D.C. from the outer dome. Yet looking around in the building and from the building could never compare to the hypnotic draw of looking...
...just outer space that's the final frontier. It's also the rarified climes present at 90,000-plus feet, on the whisper-thin edge of Earth's atmosphere. It is here that NASA had a later-day Mercury moment Tuesday, when its experimental Helios aircraft shattered altitude records and pointed the way toward one day flying on Mars...
...often clever, hammering at the outer band of humor that gets laughs from discomfort. Like listening to a gay man perform oral sex on a woman for 'N Sync tickets. Or playing the silent game, where they book bad guests and let them wallow in dead air. They call it cringe radio, at once punk and frat, like Blink-182 or Fred Durst. It's The Man Show without all that annoying polish. The program has a real garage feeling, with staff members walking in and out of the studio, twisting knobs, grabbing papers. There is no separate producer...
...most passionate voices belong to homeowners like Paul Martin, a businessman whose hundred or so acres lie within the monument's outer boundaries. "The only people who want to shrink the boundaries are timber companies and cattle owners," he says. "If you don't believe they ruin the land, imagine what your street would look like after a cow or a logger with a chainsaw spent some time there. I don't understand why they insist on ruining this tiny speck on the map when they have millions of acres nearby they're allowed to destroy...