Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very swimmingly together, in the same little pond, over the centuries. When he was president of France, de Gaulle--not always impeccably patient in the face of contrary views--once asked in exasperation: 'How can you [possibly] govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?' Well, our little planet is now much further along the path toward an infinite number of anthropoid specimens, and we need to learn how to cope with all that...
...Force's satellite-tracking telescopes, say astronomers, they could find and track the most threatening asteroids within a decade. The cost to taxpayers, they estimate, would be a few million dollars more a year. If you think of it as an insurance policy for the entire planet, it's a small price...
Life is so short, and work so long, that it's a balm to love what you do. To take pleasure and meaning from work not only gets you through the day-after-day, year-after-year, but it defines your place on this planet as much as anything short of your kids. Yet movies remain fixed on growing-pains farce and lurid fantasy. A distant civilization, judging earthlings from their popular films, would think we are the creatures who cop feels and catch serial killers. They'd never guess we spend something like half our waking hours at work...
...hand it to Duran Duran: almost 15 years after "Planet Earth" the boys are still at it. But this is not the Duran Duran we all grew up with--somewhere along the line we lost the three Taylors and picked up someone by the name of Warren Cuccurullo, who is apparently American. But in truth, LeBon and Rhodes were always the heart and soul of Duran Duran, bar none. After the feeble successes of their past two albums, one of which was all covers, featuring a rendition of Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines," and the other, their second self-titled...
...according to Cameron, the atmosphere on Mars, the first planet where astronomers found the presence of organic compounds, is too reactive...