Word: planet
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Aluminous pink sunset on the planet Mars. The unexpected eruption of volcanoes on the tiny Jovian moon lo. Swirling storms on Jupiter. A continent-size landmass hidden under the thick, sulfurous clouds of Venus. The astonishingly beautiful and complex rings of Saturn...
These are only some of the spellbinding vistas opened up by the U.S. program of planetary exploration. In the past two decades, technologically gifted robots, acting as electronic eyes and ears, have flown by and inspected every planet known to the ancients, from sunbaked Mercury, the innermost planet, to distant Jupiter and Saturn...
Clark Kent may be a champion of the underdog, but this is one David vs. Goliath story that will never appear in the Daily Planet. Back in 1979, student editors at Chicago's Richard J. Daley College decided to change their campus newspaper's name from the ominous sounding The Obstacle to the more light-hearted Daley Planet, after Superman's favorite newspaper. Funny? Certainly not to DC Comics, a division of Warner Communications Inc., which owns the Superman trademark...
After an unsuccessful attempt to pay the students $1,000 to drop Daley Planet from the masthead, Warner Communications sued, claiming trademark infringement, injury to business reputation and engagement in deceptive practices. "Great Caesar's ghost," the Daley Planet declaimed in consternation. "If we'd known there would be so much trouble, we'd have changed our name to the Gotham Globe, or the Daily Bugle. Then we'd only have to worry about bats and spiders knocking at our office, and not the Man of Steel...
...night, I got a call from someone who wanted to know if I knew anything about the planet Saturn," recalls Sara Chalfen, one of a handful of "casuals"-men and women who work part time to augment the regular staff of 12 operators. "He wanted to know the names of the stars that circle around Saturn. I tried to find him someone at the Smithsonian who would know-I don't know how successful...