Word: sagan
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...green men. To a surprising number of prominent scientists and politicians, however, it is the next frontier, a new world to be tamed and colonized. Gathering in Washington last week for a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched as early as 2010. In the highlight of the meeting...
DIED. FRANÇOISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at age 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, after she failed her exams at the Sorbonne in Paris; of heart and lung failure; in Normandy, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She also wrote 30 lesser known novels as well as short stories, plays and movie screenplays...
...DIED. FRAN?OISE SAGAN, 69, rebellious intellectual and writer; in Honfleur, France. Born Fran?oise Quoirez, she published her first book, Bonjour Tristesse, under the pseudonym Sagan in 1954 when she was 18 years old. A precocious novel of sexual disillusionment, it became a huge hit at home and sold more than a million copies in the U.S. Known for her love of drinking, fast cars and gambling as much as for her influential friendships with the likes of Tennessee Williams and French President Fran?ois Mitterrand, Sagan went on to write more than 50 books and plays over her career...
...after his flight from London to Washington was diverted to Bangor, Maine, when U.S. officials discovered he was on the no-fly list for having suspected ties to terrorists. He returned to London, saying, "The whole thing is totally ridiculous," and vowed to challenge the ban. DIED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich; in Honfleur, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Though she never matched...
...only the dozen or so books in print with WMD in the title. You get all 1,690 books in the Amazon collection in which the author wrote that phrase--including such unlikely sources as On Writing by Stephen King or The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. A couple more clicks and you get an image of the page where the phrase appears (and, if you choose, two or three pages before and after). Care only about books that discuss WMD at length? Amazon is smart enough to remember which books were bought by other readers...