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...just peachy for John Glenn. And on the second day of his back-to-space voyage, the man who is ostensibly a humble payload specialist continues to get more attention from the planet below him than all other shuttle astronauts, past and present, put together. The city of Perth in Western Australia, nostalgic about the night it lit up for Glenn?s Friendship 7 fly-by, decided to go one brighter. The grand old spaceman saw their luminous display for about five minutes, and pronounced it better than 1962: "They?ve really got them lit up tonight," Glenn said...
...wasn't just Perth, or the momentary slip ?- this 77-year-old has been getting retro with the whole trip. "Zero-g and I feel fine," said Glenn -- then and now -- when mission control wanted to know how he was adjusting to microgravity. Not to mention the "godspeed" references uttered ad nauseam Thursday, or the fact that when the shuttle flight passed the mark of Glenn?s previous extraterrestrial excursion ?- four hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds ?- it was conspicuously pored over. Now that the aged astronaut is in uncharted territory, however, the nostalgia trip has nowhere left...
...forearm in a logging accident. Turns out he really lost it using a power saw in a New Zealand jail, where he had been locked up for fraud. Hallam finally came clean two days before the operation, which was performed late last month in a French hospital. A Perth newspaper later reported that he has a court date in Australia in January on seven more fraud charges...
...with the rest of the band and, worse, inflicting his whingeing vocals on the audience. To round off Gallagher's stellar week, Cathay Pacific Airways barred the rock group from its flights. A spokeswoman claims that Gallagher threatened to stab one of the airline's pilots while flying into Perth. Brother Noel's response to those allegations: "I don't know, that's just Liam...
Seasons are important, of course, because they take place in all of us, and all our days and loves (even if Paris in the spring is Perth in the fall). They are as close to us as the spring in our step or the dying fall in a lover's lament; and the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide in far northern countries is routinely ascribed to the extreme rhythms of three months of white nights giving way to three months of absolute dark. That seasons affect our sense of order is reflected in the fact that doctors speak...