Word: shipped
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...Ship" Puritan meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...
Clinton isn't the only rudderless ship in Washington. The whole place, primed for battle so long, is having trouble coping with conciliation. Working hard to be charming, Newt Gingrich ends up making his loyalists loathe him more. "There's no interest in politics right now because there's no conflict," former Clinton strategist James Carville complained to the New Yorker last week. "Democracy demands conflict." Washington politicos brighten visibly only when asked about the likelihood of new brawls breaking out. They promise "big fights." They can't wait to start slugging...
With enthusiasm in her British-accented voice and a youthful twinkle in her eyes, Selby speaks passionately about the institute's newly commissioned ship (all 282 feet) and the research voyages it would take around the world--to be conducted on 4,000 square feet of lab space...
...possibility of extraterrestrial life on the moons Europa and Triton, discussed in "Life in a Deep Freeze" [SPACE, April 21], seems very likely. Believe me, the prospect of finding it anywhere besides The X-Files is extremely thrilling. But don't you think the $200 million per ship could be put to better use--for example, in Third World countries? FATIMA ANSARI Lahore, Pakistan...