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...Wardell highlights in his editorial). Too many politicians think along the same lines as Kuttner regarding entitlements. Is it a coincidence that the AARP constitutes the United States' largest, most powerful lobbying group? Would any self-interested politician want to ruffle the baby boomers' feathers as they prepare to pad their nests for retirement? Would such politicians be overly concerned with the less than stellar voting record of America's youth when they have plenty of baby boomer votes to rely...
None of the spectators at the Army's White Sands Missile Range had ever seen anything quite like it. With a burst of smoke and a flash of light, a 40-ft.- tall white obelisk shuddered briefly, popped off a launch pad and rose 150 ft. over the New Mexico desert. Then it suddenly stopped in midair, moved sideways for 350 ft. and started back down, engines firing all the way. At the last moment, four rodlike pods shot out of the tail to ease the bullet-shaped rocket gently to the ground...
Everything about the DC-X, from its basic components to the speed with which it moved from the computer-aided design screens and onto the launch pad -- the first stage of development took just 18 months -- shows how much was lost in the past two decades, a period in which the U.S. space program was all but stalled. The current fleet of American launch vehicles -- including the shuttle that balked on launch in mid-August and the Titan IV launcher that exploded in midair 11 days before that -- were built from blueprints drawn in the 1960s and '70s, a lifetime...
...worked for a Corpus Christi newspaper on summer vacations from Columbia University (Phi Beta Kappa, 1960), but was soon disenchanted. "I saw that electronic journalism was the future," he says, "and I didn't want to be that kind of journalist. I was old-fashioned; I wrote on a pad." So he traveled on a grant, started a novel and wrote a play, which got him into the Actors Studio. He worked as a stage manager there too. "I did a lot of moving and sweeping," he says. "But I also saw how some great professionals worked, how they shaped...
Such self-inflicted torments tend to undermine the credibility of Nelson's assault on biracial sexism. So do a number of unnecessarily graphic revelations about Nelson's frantic sex life and drug abuse, which seem to have been included to pad the manuscript. Despite these flaws, Volunteer Slavery is a compelling firsthand report from the corporate combat zone where racial and sexual lines converge and blur in the most dehumanizing ways...