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...domestic aerospace industry, too," says Kluger. All of which hardly sits well with NASA administrator Daniel Goldin's vision for "faster, cheaper, better" space missions. And researchers who could have used the money to do something useful -- cure cancer, say, or map the human genes -- can only watch and weep...
...year than the 1906 Cubs, who won 116. Rookie pitcher Kerry Wood tied the record of 20 strikeouts in a game--and did it at age 20. The most famous mark in sports, Roger Maris' single-season home-run record of 61 in 1961 (Can you see why we weep?), is being attacked on three fronts: McGwire, who had 42 homers as of Saturday (only a bit more than halfway through the season), has been joined by Griffey (39) and some guy named Sammy Sosa...
With his voice Sinatra moved people around the globe. He was able to cut across all national boundaries and color, caste and creed. We should not be ashamed to weep for the man whose music united us in joy. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...
...reflected the familiar feminist gospel. One story involved a girl born at midnight in the year 2000, appropriately named Millenny. When she goes to school, she finds that girls are no longer discouraged from fighting with one another and that boys are no longer looked down on when they weep. On television, violence and machismo have been banned. Safe pharmaceutical contraceptives are available free at banks and post offices. When and if Millenny is ready to get married, she and her partner will negotiate a contract specifying their mutual expectations and responsibilities, a document to be renegotiated from time...
...James Baker. What made the incident impressive as well as affecting was, in part, that it was so out of step with the modern way of handling personal difficulty. In an age that makes the most--and generally the worst--of any disappointment, much less grief, in which people weep lavishly at the drop of a stock market, and the tendency of television is to devote a special to the heartbreak of psoriasis, here was decent, neoclassical, proper restraint...