Word: planet
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Time was, Mars was a busy place. Everybody, it seemed--or at least everybody at NASA--wanted to fling something the Red Planet's way. First there were Mariner probes whizzing through the Martian neighborhood, then Mariner probes orbiting the planet. Next there was a Viking probe that actually landed on the surface, and another followed a few months later. Before long, so the thinking went, the unmanned probes would have surveyed the whole planet, and the manned missions could at last begin...
...worth noting that establishing growth at a company the size of IBM--with $72 billion in sales last year, it is the 18th largest on the planet--is no mean feat. In fact, to grow at the 7% rate their corporate bosses are planning, IBM's sales force has to discover economic opportunities the size of Bolivia's gnp each year--north of $5 billion in new business. And while some passionate analysts expect IBM to pull that off elegantly (and hit $200 a share by 1998), others consider the company already stressed: thus the yo-yoing stock price, which...
...swung by Jupiter in November 1973, Pioneer took the first close-up photographs of the giant planet and its moons, detected and mapped its immense magnetic field and intense radiation belts, analyzed its turbulent atmosphere and discovered that it was encircled by a faint Saturn-like ring...
...Film Institute is showing the 1912 The Life and Death of King Richard III, the oldest surviving U.S. feature film. For MGM in 1936, Leslie Howard (then 43) and Norma Shearer (36) played Romeo and Juliet. The movies have put Shakespeare in gangland (Joe Macbeth) and outer space (Forbidden Planet, from The Tempest...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The health of Americans is dependent on the health of our planet...