Word: venusized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SOLUTION WAS TO supplement the rocket's power with three "gravity assists," first from Venus, which Galileo skimmed around in a "crack-the-whip" maneuver that boosted its velocity and flung it back toward Earth, and then from Earth itself, which it swooped by twice, passing less than 200 miles from the ground before finally picking up sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter...
Indeed, how much do these books then fulfill their own prophecies? How much do people change or change others to match these neat, much more easily handled packages? John Gray's amazingly popular bestseller, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, is another example of pop-psychology literature that fails to address the complexity of relationships and gender. Based on the notion that there are fundamental emotional differences between the sexes, this book, with its chapters on what happens when you fall in love with a "Venusian," effectively stereotypes gender psyches the way no one would allow with regard...
...year, 2.3 billion-mile odyssey will culminate Thursday when the Galileo spacecraft swings into orbit around Jupiter. "The accuracy of this is really amazing," says TIME's Leon Jaroff. "Scientists were able to make incredibly precise calculations to place Galileo in exactly the right place, using Venus and the Earth in a 'crack-the-whip' maneuver to boost the probe's velocity to give it sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter." Also Thursday, a smaller probe released from Galileo 147 days earlier will enter Jupiter's atmosphere. "There won't be any dramatic pictures, just...
...high school in America." It will need some reworking first-not just character reassessment, but pruning in the overlong first act and fleshing out of the second. Even then, with a female trio delivering such lines as "The pen on the pillow of sperm/ The penis stretched out for Venus," it's doubtful that Ceiling/Sky will replace Brigadoon anytime soon...
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