Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until the one million-strong peace march in Manhattan in early June, I was rather pessimistic about the possibilities of reversing the nuclear arms race in its headlong flight to doomsday for the Northern Hemisphere, if not the entire planet. Having "free-lanced" the march (I went as a loner and deliberately walked fast in order to take in the panorama of groups coming out for this "big event"). I came away with a much more optimistic feeling about our being able to stop what Helen Caldicott calls Nuclear Madness (the title of her recent book...
Regarding the plan by the U.S.S.R. to reroute a dozen rivers, you state that almost 100 billion cubic kilometers of water a year would be diverted. That's enough water to cover the planet right up to its satellites. You must mean 100 cubic kilometers. If not, the Soviets should be asked to reconsider...
...space shuttle Columbia streaks around the planet during its fourth successful flight, scientists and engineers at the nearby Center for Astrophysics (CFA) are anxiously looking several years into the future, when the reusable spacecraft is expected to operate for scientific purposes...
...flying saucermates and the children who care for him, is for kids and for everyone who wants to be a kid. It takes an old theme-that adults, for all their wisdom and experience, fail to appreciate what is truly important character finds himself stranded on this planet, in suburban California, no less. Scientists-adults-have scared off the rest of his intergalactic expedition. After days of successfully avoiding these intellectual predators, E.T. discovers Elliott-probably about 10 years old-who takes him home and takes care...
...Larry King, who worked, and occasionally collided, with Tune during rehearsals of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, is not even sure about the first half. "Man, I don't know!" he writes in his book The Whorehouse Papers. "I think that dude grew up on a different planet." Tune, 43, does not smoke or drink, and his West Side Manhattan apartment is even sparer than he is. Almost all the interior walls have been knocked down, and the only furniture is a bed. When guests drop by, they may sit on nine big pillows. Tune meditates...