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...friction escalates between Washington and Moscow, the U.S. could find itself shut out of the International Space Station. After it retires the space shuttle in 2010, NASA will be dependent on Russian spacecraft until...
...year. It shapes our mealtimes and travels and the very surge and sag of our gross domestic product. In the vast span of human civilization, universal public education is a novelty; and yet, in the fortunate lands where the idea is a reality, it fills such a large cultural space that we can scarcely take...
...reinvention. Nearly $400 million has been or is being invested in projects around the city, including a new medical school that Doherty says will employ 1,000 people. The city web site boasts about recent infusions into its downtown from companies like drug maker Sanofi Pasteur, which now occupies space in a former Woolworth department store. Last year, the Yankees moved its AAA farm team here from Columbus, Ohio; in May, Money magazine named Scranton one of the ten fastest-growing real estate markets in the country. This growth is proof of Doherty's mantra: If you make it nice...
...stint meant a sharp raise in pay (he was hired at an annual salary of $8,500, a hefty sum back then) but a likely loss in status among the intellectuals whose favor he craved. He may have thought his work for the magazine was beneath his standard; Negative Space includes no Time reviews. I had guessed that the gig was painful, that editors rewrote his copy into Time-speak, with its backward-running sentences, space-saving but eye-irritating ampersands ("now & then"), capitalized job designations and film references shoved in as nicknames - "Director Elia (Gentleman's Agreement) Kazan" - often...
...entertaining as well as enlightening or pushing an agenda, and in recognition that getting people to read a magazine required a measure of variety-showmanship. Manny's earlier writing had many of these qualities (as well as many others that Time had little use or space for). That must be why he was hired - that and, I'll bet, Agee's recommendation. It could also explain why he wanted to be there...