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Starting in the summer of last year, the long-postponed restoration of many cherished landmarks inside the Eternal City--including the original entrance to the Pantheon and the front of St. Peter's--finally got under way. Parks and villas that are open to the public are undergoing extensive renovation, and work on new train lines should be completed next year...
...touched. That education changed the way I looked at my relatively healthy, affluent and protected upbringing in suburban St. Louis, and it continues to color my observations of a highly individualistic, often cold and uncaring Harvard today. I see religion all around me. But the gods included in this pantheon are named Money, Narrow Ambition, Mindless Competition and Consumption. So the story goes...
...Tolstoy their golden touches. Maybe it's the sweeping snowscapes, or the songs, and that there's just no throng like a Russian throng, fur hats and all. Or maybe it's all those nukes. Whatever it is, it pulls Reds back from the brink and into the pantheon of really long, turgid movies worth watching...
...land their feet as American icons? Can they live forever in the records of the game--and survive this year? Can they bulldoze into the Hall of Fame and worm their way into our hearts? What price will they pay for their place in our small pantheon of power heroes...
WASHINGTON: Another of the high-flying seven has fallen. Alan Shepard, who in 1961 became the first American in space and, a decade after that, perhaps rescued the space program from oblivion, died Tuesday night at age 74. "There are few people with a more exalted place in the pantheon," says TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger. "He was the first. But even more remarkable was his second trip." After 10 years on the ground with ear trouble, Shepard was 47 in 1971 when, with very little training, he took the Apollo 14 lunar module back up -- and spent 33 hours...