Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People tend to forget that the astronauts went into space on Government paychecks. Do we get the "right stuff" in Government...
...seems to me the argument falls on its face. Just pick up any newspaper, on any subject. You have a great problem with the space program. You've got problems with AIDS. You've got problems with savings and loans. Now they're not all going to be rescued or prevented ((from failing)) just by having a more effective civil service. But to say that you can run the Government without any continuity, without any background, without any expertise, I think, logically is deficient...
Most of the expenditures are devoted to genuine legislative needs. Each House member, for example, receives $411,099 to hire aides as well as a sum ranging from $105,000 to $360,000 to rent office space in his district. A minimum of $67,000 is provided for office, telephones and travel back and forth between Washington and home base. Senators receive larger allocations in these categories. In addition, members of both houses have the privilege of sending unlimited free "franked" mail to their constituents (at a total cost of $113 million in 1988) and the use of recording studios...
Piazza della Signoria is in a state of upheaval these days. The piazza that has been the center of Florentine life since before Medici times, the space chosen by Michelangelo for his exquisite statue David, has been ripped up and fenced in. The current David, a copy, stands forlornly in front of a partially scaffolded Palazzo Vecchio. Cosimo I, the young Medici ruler who sits mid- square atop his bronze horse, gazes down on an ugly, corrugated plastic roof covering a third of the square...
...stories, science fiction or other literature that might not please Hirsch's dignified tastes. We read about what we liked, and that's how we learned to read. If children test poorly on a reading comprehension passage about, say, the Mongolian tree iguana, and well on one about a space taxi, it's because they are more interested in space than in life sciences, not necessarily because have read extensively on the subject. Literacy provides the freedom to discover and decide our own interests, which Hirsch constrains by telling us what to know and then shoving it down our throats...