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...everyone at NASA is convinced that Goldin's thrift-shop ships are up to the trips. "Faster and cheaper is not necessarily better," says Ray Newburn, a veteran astronomer with 41 years of experience working on J.P.L. missions. "It's nice to have some small missions where you don't have all your eggs in one basket. But you can't always be cheap about missions that go way out and have to last a decade or more...
Chain-smoking in a Hollywood deli, his Falstaffian form wrapped in a thrift-store overcoat, Smith scoffs at Gen X pulse takers. Twentysomethings tell pollsters they are industrious, "to present themselves in the best light. But we're not career-driven. You watch your parents work all their lives, and what do they have to show for it? My generation wants to get the most for doing the least." As for politics, he says, "we'd rather talk about the President's infidelity. Look, the dude cheated on his wife...
While there may be mild irony in an upscale department store peddling a look that is based in part on thrift-store chic, fashion has long fed on pop-culture events for inspiration. Diane Keaton's shapeless slouch gear in Annie Hall and Jennifer Beals' off-the-shoulder Flashdance sweat shirts both set looks that lasted for months on the streets. Bloomingdale's plays the game, selling 500 yellow trench coats a la Dick Tracy in 1990. On the other hand, the store's executives weren't quite quick enough to lock in Alicia Silverstone and last year's Clueless...
...Japan did seem to have a secret, somehow managing to exempt itself from the economic laws that governed everyone else. Its society too seemed to provide a model of hard work, thrift and cohesion. Back in the early 1990s, both Japan and its competitors believed it had invented an economic version of the perpetual-motion machine. And that being the case, there was no reason for the miracle to end. M.I.T. economist Lester Thurow declared that the 21st century belonged to Japan. Sony co-founder Akio Morita and nationalist Shintaro Ishihara wrote a best seller arguing that Japan...
...someone has a better one, "whether wampum, Snickers bars or seashells or whatever, I'll be ready to listen." When he talks about family values, it still all comes down to mortgage rates. "Economics and values are the same thing," he says. "The values we value are trust, thrift, a belief in progress and a belief that we are here to serve some higher purpose...