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...agency's founding in 1958, NASA's mission statement read: "To advance and communicate scientific knowledge and understanding of the Earth, the solar system, and the universe and use the environment of space for research. To explore, use, and enable the development of space for human enterprise. To research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced aeronautics, space, and related technologies...
JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER Haiti He used the Tontons Macoutes, a brutal secret-police force, to exercise control. Now Baby Doc lives comfortably in Paris, worshipping voodoo and studying solar energy...
Some of the stories are inspirational, like that of the unlettered electrician who bootstrapped his way to the head of his own solar-power company. Some are bizarre: Bronson talks to a Tibetan refugee who received a letter telling him he was the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist spiritual leader. Some are bathetic: Carl Kurlander, the screenwriter responsible for the callow 1980s hit St. Elmo's Fire, abruptly left Hollywood for his native Pittsburgh, Pa., in search of his lost artistic integrity; he didn't find it. What Should I Do with My Life? is an old question borrowed from...
...What do you think is going to happen on earth in this decade?" asks Marsic. "We will be able to travel to new solar systems and discover new planets." As scientific advances increase, humans, like the Elohim, "will be able to design new organisms from scratch," he says. "I?m sure some day some people from earth will go to another planet and create new life...
...politicians and pundits trampling one another in a scramble for the microphones in order to say how deeply offended they were at his comments, how saddened they are by the man's transgression or how urgently they wish his removal from the Senate leadership--or, if possible, from the solar system--can be divided into two categories. Call them Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats, by and large, are sincerely offended by what Lott said. But they are delighted, not saddened, that he said it. And they are utterly insincere about wanting him to be gone. Like the Republicans during...