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...thought it was a very interesting ceremony because you heard a lot of history of the prize," said Howbert who chose Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot as his award book...
...with every large fries?" The show is packed with many such consciousness-raising insights-insights that may have been trenchant back when Simone de Beauvoir was drafting The Second Sex. Third Rock's creators, veteran Saturday Night Live writers Bonnie and Terry Turner, have described the show as "Carl Sagan meets the Marx Brothers." In reality, it's Maude meets Mork & Mindy...
...landing on the moon. Apparently House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Bob Dole don't get the picture, as evidenced by their efforts to make cuts in the meager NASA budget in the Contract with America. A picture in the book The Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan, shows the earth as a tiny point of light that is barely visible among a sea of similar points of light, many of which are more visible and much brighter. Of course, no evidence of habitation can be seen in that photo. The pictures serve to put us in our place. DAVID...
...more and more believable." Scientists are worried, too, that the proliferation of paranormal TV is contributing to the public's scientific illiteracy, which they regard as a national liability in a high-tech age. "If you are awash in lost continents and channeling and ufos," says astronomer Carl Sagan, "you may not have intellectual room for the findings of science...
AILING. CARL SAGAN, 60, mediagenic astronomer; from a rare bone-marrow disease; in Ithaca, New York. Sagan is taking a leave of absence from Cornell to seek treatment for the potentially cancerous condition...