Word: planet
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...came away reminded that the world is very, very small, wishing we could all take the trip, because we would all come back better housekeepers, wiser stewards. "This planet below you is our campsite," she said, "and you know of no other campground...
...astronauts, busy monitoring their deceleration, temperature, hydraulics and more, didn't have much time to watch the light show play out, and by the time the glow brightened from faint pink to bright pink to plasma white, the ship had arced around the planet into thick air and daylight. "It all happens so smoothly ... you hardly notice it," says retired astronaut Henry Hartsfield Jr., who piloted Columbia in the early 1980s...
...Hong Kong transform itself again, as it did in the 1950s when it became more than a China gateway by turning itself into a manufacturing powerhouse? Or is it destined to become like Rio de Janeiro? Fifty years ago, the Brazilian city was the priciest place on the planet. But it lost its bearings when the bureaucracy moved to Brasilia, the bankers moved to S?o Paulo, and slums and drugs trumped its topography and iconic beaches...
...Tibetan people to foreign films to movies from the 1970s and 1980s. The regular prices are $10 or less, but the student discounts make tickets even cheaper. The Harvard Book Store is another gem, with its ever-friendly staff and helpful suggestions on the next book to read. Veggie Planet, aside from having fantastic pizza, also has live band performances...
Luckily, Steven Spielberg’s sparkling new version of H. G. Wells’ anti-colonialist sci-fi bonanza, “The War of the Worlds,” avoids the cliché pratfalls that have been the peril of many an ambitious epic. As he destroys Planet Earth, Spielberg spares us images of the White House splintering to pieces or blustery generals ordering tanks and fighter jets into battle; instead, we see the horrors through the eyes of Spielberg’s everyman hero, Ray Ferreira (Tom Cruise...