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...country was suffering "a crisis of confidence." Only political junkies know that Carter never actually used the word malaise. And only the most astute historian remembers that he got an initial bounce in the polls. In the long run, though, the speech was judged a disaster and set the stage for Ronald Reagan to use sunny optimism to run Carter out of town. George H.W. Bush, accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 1984, promised that the country would not return to the "malaise days" of his Democratic predecessors...
...cosmos. Known as the Dark Ages of the universe, it's the 200 million-year period (more or less) after the last flash of light from the Big Bang faded and the first blush of sun-like stars began to appear. What happened during the Dark Ages set the stage for the cosmos we see today, with its billions of magnificent galaxies and everything that they contain--the shimmering gas clouds, the fiery stars, the tiny planets, the mammoth black holes...
...usual transition to less-inspired film roles. But it wasn't until he starred on Broadway in 1993's The Goodbye Girl, an underrated musical with Marvin Hamlisch's best post-Chorus Line score, that he showed how effortlessly his lithe, smallish body could take over a Broadway stage. There hasn't been much for him to do on Broadway since then - although he did cop a Tony for his tour-de-force performance in a revival of Little Me - so it took Short himself (along with Shaiman, Wittman and co-writer Daniel Goldfarb) to come up with the ideal...
...realistic virtual environment, inspired Case Western Reserve University Assistant Professor Stacy Williams to conceptualize a virtual reality theater to help people with communications disorders (i.e., stuttering problems, high-functioning autism, recovering from strokes, etc.). Case Western has always been an advocate of what Williams calls the "sage on the stage versus the guide on the side" learning method, in which students gain their own knowledge through "routine, everyday activities and/or challenges" with intermittent guidance from a teacher, she says. "Star Trek is that situated learning paradigm at its prime," says Williams, referring to the way that the holodeck was used...
...fallout from the political feud surrounding Plan B will play out for months. Democratic Senators Patty Murray and Hillary Clinton dropped their objections Thursday to confirming Andrew von Eschenbach, acting FDA commissioner since September 2005; the Senators had vowed to stall von Eschenbach's nomination at the committee stage until the emergency contraception was made available over the counter. But more bitter response erupted immediately from conservative and faith-based groups, some calling on President Bush to withdraw von Eschenbach's nomination altogether because of the pills that, if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, can greatly reduce...