Word: planet
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...forget it. What Allen is after is nothing less than the demolition of the concept of the artist as benefactor to mankind. Bates can no longer contemplate making his popular farces because of his determination that he has to do something about the wretchedness of this planet, but his efforts to do serious works are unsuccessful and barely tolerated. At that, the quality of his work scarcely matters because his audience applauds even his commonplace remark. He's trapped no matter what he does. When he gets a chance to ask a space visitor what he can do for mankind...
This is a reversal we can't afford. If America chose in the late 1800s to ignore populism and place its faith in an expanding economy, to ignore the plagues of race and sex discrimination, and treat the rest of the planet as if it were a warehouse to be looted, it meant trouble for a few generations of Americans. But now we are trying the same thing in a day when the rest of the world demands and deserves a share of the world's wealth. In an age when the fact of scarcity--the idea Reagan...
...equipped to answer such questions. One of two identical ships en route to Saturn (its twin will reach it next August), the spacecraft carries eleven instruments, including two television cameras. During Voyager's swing by Jupiter in March 1979, these keen eyes sent back stunning closeups of the planet's turbulent atmosphere, detailed views of its moons and even a spectacular shot of a volcanic eruption on the Jovian satellite...
...Arizona Astronomer Bradford Smith announced two previously undetected moons-Saturn's 13th and 14th known satellites-probably no more than 320 km (200 miles) in diameter and 80,000 km (50,000 miles) above its clouds. The scientists also reported puzzling complexities-apparently less dense regions-in the planet's ring system; the varying speeds of material traveling in different portions of the rings should presumably smooth out such features, but somehow they survive for hours at a time. Finally, the scientists confirmed the existence of three other moons, which had been only tentatively identified from earlier observations...
...around for that spectacle. After sweeping within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of Titan, the spacecraft will plunge through the plane of Saturn's rings, soar past the moon Tethys, and on Nov. 12 come to within 124,000 km (77,174 miles) of the planet's cloud tops. Whipped by Saturn's gravity, the spacecraft will then swing quickly up and around the planet, photograph other moons, make a film of Saturn's swiftly moving clouds and rings and, finally, head out of the solar system...