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David J. Andorsky's recent editorial ("A Space Station Is Too Costly: The Federal Government Should Spend Its Money at Home," February 7, 1995) contains several persuasive, and familiar, arguments. The accompanying cartoon, a picture of a beggar looking forlornly into the night sky at a constellation that resembles a dollar sign, is a misguided masterpiece that echoes his seemingly reasonable conclusions: Money spent on the space station would be better spent repairing decaying highways, feeding the homeless of Cambridge, saving lives in Bosnia and Rwanda and any number of unspecified "closer to home" projects. I don't mean...
...Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving on the clock-tower hanging scene from Lloyd's Safety Last, Chan falls from the sky-high tower through two awnings and crashes to earth-on his head. (Tiptoe away, Lloyd's of London...
...nice sentiment, but I don't think that a child growing up in a poor, crime-ridden ghetto would buy it. Neither would Bosnians, Rwandans or the homeless people that line the streets of Cambridge. Before we built monuments to ourselves in the sky, we must halt the economic decay of our cities, alleviate human suffering and help our neighbors acquire the basic necessities of life. The pro-Freedom slogan reads: "The Space Station: It's About Life on Earth." Maybe, but dealing with poverty, crime, famine and war are about "life on earth," too. Once we've made some...
Imagine this. It's Friday night about 7:30. The stadium lights are shining on hundreds of fields across the south. The bands are filling the evening sky with fight songs, the players are full of butterflies and the thousands of fans are packing into the bleachers to cheer their sons, classmates, students or friends...
...Californians looked to the sky this time (as opposed to, say, the ground), they were once more affirming, as Christopher Isherwood advised, that to live there with peace of mind requires accepting the possibility of great reversal. "There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses," the late novelist wrote, "your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it and you will be happy...