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...later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook, designed to extract spies from enemy territory, was featured in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball...
Recently he saw the strength of Internet friendship. A member of a Third Age chat group who calls himself "Skyhook" had a severe reaction to medication while he was online. Skyhook, a quadriplegic, was home alone in Ohio. The online group kept him alert while someone called 911. A few months later, Firman and some other members of the chat group paid a visit to Skyhook. After they saw his mobile home, they contacted Ohio social services, which helped make the dwelling more wheelchair accessible and updated his computer...
...talk to an awful lot of people who are anxious for friendship," Firman says. The Internet is helping them find it. It helped Skyhook's friends save his life, and it's been a lifesaver for seniors who have widened their social circle, gained confidence and discovered a new world online...
What is more surprising is that Dennett alsotakes on eminent scientists like Steven Jay Gould,Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose, each of whomattempts to introduce some kind of skyhook thatwill put a halt to the evolutionary explanation ofhuman capabilities. The nature of Dennett'sdisagreement with his foes is often obscure, andthere is such a flurry of names and citations thatthe inattentive reader will probably begin to justtake Dennett's word for it. What it all comes downto is that Dennett sees Darwin's dangerousidea--that everything from consciousness to ethicscan be explained by the function of naturalselection over time...
...National League of Families, the largest group representing close relatives of MIAs, accused 14 of the self-styled MIA rescue groups, including Operation Rescue, Homecoming II and Skyhook II, of distributing "false or distorted information" or supporting "counterproductive" activities. "It's a mystery how these guys have survived," says League of Families official Louise Van Hoozer, the sister of an Air Force pilot shot down in Vietnam. "All the leads offered by these guys evaporated...