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...astronauts' final day began with Scotland the Brave, piped over the radio. The song was for Laurel Clark, the doctor from Iowa who was coming to the end of her first space flight. Did she know the words? "Wild are the winds to meet you. Staunch are the friends that greet you, kind as the love that shines from fair maidens' eyes." Her friends and family had been waiting to greet her from the moment she left. After Columbia lifted off safely, Clark's brother Daniel Salton told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he realized he had been holding...
...last song the lost crew of the space shuttle Columbia ever heard was Scotland the Brave by the 51st Highland Brigade. That was the wake-up song beamed up by NASA on the morning the ship was supposed to return to earth. The day before it had been Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet, for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon. Thursday morning it had been John Lennon's Imagine. Scotland the Brave was for mission specialist Laurel Clark, Scottish by extraction...
...Good morning, Houston," Clark answered. "We're getting ready for our big day up here ... I'm really excited to come back home. Hearing that song reminds me of all the different places down on Earth and all the friends and family that I have all over the world...
...Rocking for Relief J.F.O. McAllister's essay "They're Playing His Song" described Prime Minister Tony Blair's use of rock-star diplomacy to get across his message on aid to Africa at the G-8 summit [July 4]. Regardless of what political capital Blair gains by using music celebrities to call attention to Africa's poor, the essence of his message is that poverty must be eradicated. If music is the medium to rouse the Western world, so be it. Politicians aim to leave a legacy, and it's a good time for Blair to do so. Krishan Sapra...
...world's languages: from a rough total of 6,000 spoken today, linguists fear half will disappear within the next generation; 90% will be gone by the end of this century. And with each tongue that is silenced, every dance that is forgotten, every song and headdress design that slips from tribal memory, we sense that part of humanity's common heritage is lost...