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...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...
...shows on the two "Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...