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...Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from his party membership yet justifies it: "Not all communists are the same. Somebody joins them in order to soften [the system] from within. Somebody has to sacrifice himself." After years of estrangement - Mára once taught and romanced Brecka's wife, now an official of the all-powerful visual artists' union - their paths cross again when Mára is commissioned to design a mural for Brecka's school and a statue of a Soviet general. Mára reluctantly accepts the commissions, awarded...
...year and helps him finance his next goal: earning a degree to teach elementary school. Teaching is already a profession he loves. "At circle time, half of them used to use the cushions as Frisbees," he says of his well-behaved tots. "Knowing that you've taught them some things is cool. I'm 21. I shouldn't be thinking that this is so cool...
...market for telescopes and peripherals has exploded too, and with affordable star-tracking software, digital cameras and access to global-positioning systems (GPS), self-taught stargazers can discover comets and supernovas on their own, thus democratizing this once elite science. Amateurs helped track the trajectory of the doomed shuttle Columbia. Indeed, the very distinction between amateur and professional astronomy may be vanishing. "There are professionals who can't even tell you the exact location of a galaxy they have been studying," says Berman. "And then there are so-called amateurs for whom the sky is a second home...
Super-imaging is valuable for more than recreational work. There's not an amateur out there who hasn't looked in the mirror and seen Clyde Tombaugh, the self-taught stargazer who discovered Pluto in 1930, or David Levy, the celebrated amateur who has discovered or co-discovered 21 comets, including the famous Shoemaker-Levy, which crashed into Jupiter in 1994. While there are only so many planets or visible comets out there, amateurs are making contributions tracking star movements and lunar cycles and even hunting for supernovas. Larry Mitchell, the Houstonian with the 36-in. telescope, spotted...
...Where I come from, Canada, it’s dark for months at a time, so when I first came here all I really knew how to do was be pale and ice fish,” Hendry said. “But when I first met Curran he taught me how to unleash my inner bronzed Adonis, and I taught him how to hunt polar bears with a hockey stick. So even though I lost, I believe that everyone here is a winner...