Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to run and walk with the other kids," that baby, all grown up, now says. So she wore corrective leg braces, wore them to bed, wore them to school. There she is teased because of her name, even though Venus is the goddess of beauty. "Venus is a planet," kids tell her. Even when her own family chooses sides for basketball games, she is left on the sidelines. But in the fourth grade the braces come off, and her body, in celebration, grows to 6 ft. 4 in. and 190 pounds. She becomes an athlete, a college star...
...Granted, Planet Hollywood is not your average hash house. As the stars step from their limos and navigate the red carpet, the crowds erupt in full frenzy. "I absolutely have to see Bruce Willis!" shouts Arthur Signoralli, 32, a mechanic. Marjorie Bates, 61, and her husband have driven 45 miles from Columbia, Tennessee, to celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary at the big opening--outside, not at the party inside. Her long-lens camera at the ready, the excited Bates says, "I want to see everybody! My husband wants to see Cindy Crawford...
...your life and sufferings. Attending services at a religious institution gives you a chance to get social support by relating to others and to God at difficult times. A strong sense of spiritual and social ties would surely eliminate the role of many Dr. Jack Kevorkians from this planet. IRFAN AKBAR Pittsburg, California...
...terrifying present in 1996. Science fiction is always about the year in which it is written. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a McCarthyite fantasy. Today, I think, the alien is inside, a virus of one kind or another." He cites J.G. Ballard's remark: "The only truly alien planet is Earth...
...neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci-fi subject--inspired Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars (Bantam). The third volume in his acclaimed Mars trilogy, it's a painstakingly plotted epic that follows a group of pioneers across centuries as they transform the Red Planet into an ecologically friendly refuge. "We're acting as the conscience and subconscious of the scientific world," says Greg Bear, author of 16 novels, most of them hard sci-fi. "We dream what scientists would like to achieve...