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...centuries, Mars has inspired fear. The striking redness of the planet portended all sorts of evil to those who viewed it. The Babylonians named it Nergal, after their god of death and pestilence; the Romans called it Mars, after their god of battle. And now we learn that Mars has been among us the entire time. Somehow Mars seems more mundane...
...alien from another planet had the task of choosing an earthling to take into its spaceship--let's say it wanted to find out whether a particular bodily fluid might be effective on the other planet in cleaning windshields without leaving streaks--it would obviously look for someone open to believing in its existence, rather than someone who dismissed extraterrestrial visitors as the figment of someone else's imagination...
Think of what would happen, for instance, if an alien from another planet approached Pat Buchanan with abduction in mind. After all, Pat Buchanan believes that all aliens are from another planet...
...that time NASA will have plenty of other missions to manage. The next project in the Discovery series is the Mars Pathfinder, scheduled for launch next December, which will land on the Red Planet and send a robot rover off to explore. Then comes Lunar Prospector in 1997, designed to chart the mineral composition of Earth's nearest neighbor, and after that a mission to bring a chunk of comet back to Earth, slated for 1999. Each is supposed to cost a few hundred million dollars at most, and thanks to NEAR that goal, considered highly improbable when...
When management gives eight months' notice of international transfer, a Harvard graduate ought to have time to learn something of the newly required language. But instead, my graduates harp as my undergraduates do, about a shrinking planet, international business and the Web, all the while scarcely realizing that a love of languages other than English endures as one great divide between public-high-school graduates and private-school graduates...