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National student activist groups like Free the Planet, Green Corps, Sierra Student Coalition and the Student Environmental Action Coalition have announced their support for Ecopledge...
...come in search of the cheap thrill, the easy score, the fast women, the sugar daddies. On their final approach, they can already begin to make out the pale halo of the city's lights--lights that can be seen from outer orbit, against the dark face of a planet couched in the shadow of night. They make their way down to the strip and all around the city. They're greeted by a madman's dreamscape: castles made of sand, built with bags of mob money and later rebuilt with the bounties of multinational entertainment cartels. The scene...
...which surrounds the sphere just below its equator. As you begin your circumnavigation, the sphere becomes a reference for the relative sizes of objects in the universe. At one point, it represents the sun, while smaller spheres, from a few inches to a few feet across, portray the eight planets. (Not nine. Many astronomers, Tyson explains, now believe that Pluto is not a full-fledged planet.) A bit farther along, the sphere represents a molecule that dwarfs the footwide atom mounted to the railing...
...True, Nicole's career did do a 180 after she became the wife of the most famous man on the planet. After winning performances in Flirting and Dead Calm, Nicole tried to flex her acting muscles opposite her new husband (Far and Away, Days of Thunder) but found herself in an endless string of flops (My Life, Malice, Portrait of a Lady, etc.). And so she took action--my mother calls it "Plan B," I call it "Operation Take My Clothes Off and See If I'm a Better Actress When I'm Naked." Nicole Kidman has become...
...essay "Who Will Destroy Our Civilization and Lay Waste to Life on Earth as We Know It in the Next Century?" in the next Visions issue). If the indicators are correct, the mother ship of these Ecstatic Beings will emit a cloud of radioactive gas that blankets the planet, wiping out all life for a period of 10,000 years. Then and only then shall comic reconstruction begin...