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...Former IOP fellow Jesse Ventura thinks he could take Ah-nold in a fight. (“The Body Talks,” 3/11/2004...
...Former IOP fellow Jesse Ventura thinks he could take Ah-nold in a fight. (“The Body Talks,” 3/11/2004...
...failed to show loyalty to his own party, the Greens, who have nominated another candidate in this election. Nader is now running as both an independent and as a Reform Party member, a party that has nominated such notorious anti-government conservatives as Jessie Ventura and Ross Perot. Nader effectively abandoned his own party after...
DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, one of NASA's original seven astronauts; in Ventura, Calif. Famously casual in his approach to pilot training--and famously brilliant at it nonetheless--Cooper flew twice into orbit, as the sole pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963 and as commander of Gemini 5 in 1965. For a time, Cooper held the world record for time logged in space, 222 hours, but his strap-it-on-and-go approach served him less well in the lunar program, when NASA preferred more by-the-book pilots. He never got a trip to the moon...
...DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, U.S. astronaut who flew the last mission of the pioneering Mercury space program; in Ventura, California. Cooper set records for time spent and distance traveled in space; his 191-hour Gemini mission in 1963 helped demonstrate that a future moon trip was possible. With his career cut short because of what he called "a lot of in-house politics," he retired from the Air Force in 1970 and became president of a company that tested and raced cars and pioneered the installation of jet engines. Once asked who the best fighter pilot was, he answered...