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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This has got to be the happiest time of my life," said Martin as he popped the cork on a bottle of champagne. "It's incredible to me that it all worked so perfectly." Scientists who had sweated through Viking's earlier delays and other technical problems greeted the landing with applause or jokes. A few were damp-eyed. Most, however, were simply overwhelmed by the implications of their accomplishment. "How many times does Columbus arrive in history?" asked Gerald Soffen, Viking project scientist. "We've just witnessed one of the arrivals. We are a privileged generation...
...earth's air suggests that Mars at one time had a denser atmosphere more conducive to the evolution of life. Said Dr. Michael McElroy, a Harvard University physicist: "At an early stage. Mars apparently had enough pressure to hold quantities of water." And even today, notes the scientist, Mars may be capable of supporting life. "Look at what we need for life," said McElroy. "We need water; that we have. We need nitrogen; that we have. Phosphorus, phosphates ... I see no reason to exclude, from every thing we know, the possibility of the evolution of life Ion Mars...
...interesting and perhaps a bit mystifying that most of the religious struggles around the world involve Moslems. Some scholars believe such conflicts may be an expression of a resurgent Islam. Says Duke University Political Scientist Ralph Braibanti: "This may be the moment in history when money, diplomacy and strategy join together in providing a new context for the renaissance of Islamic identity and perhaps of Islam itself." Islam makes no distinction between the secular and the religious. The Moslem doctrine of jihad (holy war) has an immediate, literal significance. As the Vatican's guidelines on Islam observe, "Islam...
...rather an intense loyalty to the religious community. The phenomenon has something to do with a clinging to identity, especially in such enclaves as Northern Ireland and Lebanon, whose national identities are fractured and cannot in themselves command patriotic followings. One of Egypt's leading intellectuals, Political Scientist Magdi Wahba, sees signs everywhere of "a disintegration of the national fabric and a religious revival taking its place...
...blue of melancholy. In the U.S. particularly, red can also connote financial trouble (as in ink), blue moody music (as in jazz) and white racism (as in honky). The U.S. was the first nation to put stars on its national flag, and some vexillologists (flag experts) agree with Political Scientist Whitney Smith that the flag should display the familiar circle of 13 stars, leaving out every parvenu state created or attached from...