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...International Space Station come about? The first practical space station plans date back half a century to the German rocket scientist Werner von Braun, who was brought to the United States after World War II and would ignite America's part in the space race. After developing the rockets that took astronauts to the moon, he turned his attention to the idea of a permanently manned space station. He planned for orbiting wheels that would slowly spin to provide the kind of artificial gravity that would allow hundreds of people to work in an Earth-like environment. But the cost...
...stories Schlesinger tells and the characters he recalls are vivid. After graduating from Harvard in 1938, Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called "On the Frontier," the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger - Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively...
...therefore am running for president as a scientist to put our government back on firm principles of knowledge and proven solutions...
...WAVE OF DOOM? Earlier this month, a scientist at University College, London, raised concerns that part of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on one of the Canary Islands could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news," said Dr. Simon...
Bloom called Bloch "a model of what a true scientist should be," saying his personal qualities were as stellar as his professional achievements...