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Original Mercury 7 astronaut Walter Schirra Jr. was perfect for the part of brash space pioneer. The only one to fly in all three of NASA's first space programs, the garrulous, coolly competent perfectionist had a blast, smuggling a corned-beef sandwich aboard the Mercury, joking to reporters about his thoughts before a launch ("This was all put together by the lowest bidder") and cheering Americans with intra-capsule antics covered on TV. Yet he was the go-to guy for such delicate assignments as Gemini 6A--in which he made a critical snap call to stay aboard after...
...presidential candidate John Edwards, spoke movingly about her cancer, saying she accepted the TIME 100 honor "only as a representative of all the men and women who are facing diagnoses like mine, and who continue to fight." NBC News anchor Brian Williams spoke of his heroes of broadcast journalism, Walter Cronkite and Morley Safer. Amr Khaled, the televangelist from Egypt, spoke passionately about young Islamic men and women who want peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world, and asked us to reach out our hands to them. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke of how astronomer Carl Sagan...
...It’s really impressive for them,” Burkett said. “They have had a very strong recruiting class that has had time together. It has been a first for them to stay together.”—Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached at wehowell@fas.harvard.edu...
What do you find most startling about the treatment of injured soldiers in facilities like Walter Reed Army Medical Center...
...students in the popular course Science A-41, “The Einstein Revolution” worked through their last round of problem sets and paper drafts of the semester, another Einstein expert was on campus to weigh in on the innovative mind of the renowned physicist. Walter S. Isaacson ’74, former chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor for Time Magazine, spoke about Albert Einstein, the subject of his most recent book, “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum...