Word: outerness
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Commandos poured out of the tunnels, firing as they came. On the balcony outside the master bedroom, the attackers found a wooden outer door still locked, though hostages had opened the inner, metal panel. One rebel fired his AK-47 through the wood and killed Lieut. Colonel Valer. Valer's troops then blew the door open with a grenade and stormed in. Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela van Bruegal-Douglas was wounded in the leg as he escaped. The commandos, intercepting guerrillas coming up from the living room, shot them down on the staircase...
Still, the news that a 63-year-old California woman gave birth to a baby girl gave me pause. She will be pushing 80 when this child is denting the family car, filling the hamper and emptying the refrigerator. What's more, 63 is not the outer limit. What this birth shows is that by using donor eggs, a woman can carry a child well into her dotage, like the legendary Thurmond. Think about it: Mother Teresa could become a mother...
...tendency to treat its students as the so-called future leaders of the world: "One of the reasons that very few people who had gone to Harvard ever felt any emotional loyalty toward it is that, by design, one's loyalties were supposed to go outward, toward the outer world of power, not inward toward University Hall. What the University called fostering a sense of independence, the students called loneliness; in some instances, abandonment...
Even before Cassini's work begins and Galileo's ends, other ships could be on the way to join them in the outer solar system. NASA is tentatively planning several new Europa probes, including one that will photograph its surface and take radar soundings beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid water, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa and release a heated probe designed to melt through the ice layer and look for signs of life in the seas below...
...only with a minimum of nostalgic regret that I mourn the enchanted outer space of my childhood. Comets will always be a white blobs to me, and I no longer idolize astronauts. I have since learned that the exalted Hayden Planetarium's Pink-Floyd-and-astronomy extravaganzas provided psychedelic entertainment for drug users citywide. I find most of our nation's space program to be a waste of time and money. The notion of launching tomato seeds into space is morally repugnant when there are those who die of starvation on a daily basis. Housing men and women in space...