Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What he did to Charlton Heston the fellow in the blue blazer is doing to Port Charles, the town in which General Hospital is situated. Mr. Blue Blazer turns out to be Mikkos Cassadine, an amuck plutocrat who means to create "a brave new world." Wants to set the planet an example of his terrible power by freezing Port Charles into submission. Confused; consult TV Guide, which verifies program is General Hospital, not Flash Gordon...
...continue to drift, eventually creating a world that will be far different from today's. Africa, Eurasia, Australia and North America will come together to form a giant continent with new climates and ecosystems; South America will become a huge island. Once man has succeeded in overpopulating the planet and exhausting its resources, as he now seems bent on doing, he will have assured not only his own extinction but that of the species that depend upon him for existence: domestic cattle, for example. Man's departure, concludes Dixon, will allow "evolution to get back to work filling...
Although no one spells it out, this "new emotion" sounds like the tactile knowledge of what being alive now, thanks to science and space probes, means: sitting on a crowded planet that is moving very fast. In such a situation, Mooney's narrative suggests, everything that happens matters to everyone. But who can absorb, much less report, everything? The author sometimes reaches for cosmic consciousness and produces more comedy than insights: "On one of the fishing boats in the cove, a young down-islander discovered he had the wrong-size replacement batteries for his transistor and flung them angrily...
...Harvard astronomers are now interpreting data from Voyager II, the unmanned space satellite whose voyage they helped plan. Voyager II passed by Saturn in late August, sending back to earth the clearest pictures ever taken of the ringed planet...
...most important information seen so far seems to concern the mystery of the composition of the planet's rings, Fred S. Franklin '54, an associate of the Imaging Team, said yesterday, adding that the two Voyager missions "increased by a factor of 1000" the amount of data scientists have about the rings...