Word: prospectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some dotcom gold prospector who made a lucky bet. He is a messiah for a new commercial order based on e-capitalism. "Our 300-year plan is the long-term structure we need to fit our goals," deadpans the Netrepreneur. "Long horizons change your priorities...
...also has a family beyond the plastic dinosaur, the piggy bank, the Slinky dog and his other amigos back home in Andy's bedroom. Jessie the Yodelin' Cowgirl and Stinky Pete the prospector and a horse named Bullseye--they all want Woody to stay with them. Could life be better for a cloth toy who, in the original film, thought no one wanted him? Now everybody does. Way too much...
...good as the best live-action sequels, as good as The Godfather II." This doesn't mean BUZZ LIGHTYEAR will swim with the rubber duckies, but WOODY does get abducted by an unsavory toy collector. When the movie hits theaters in November, new cast members JESSE THE COWGIRL, the PROSPECTOR and the evil ZURG will join the originals, who despite advances in technology, look much the same. "We stayed true to what people remembered," says director John Lasseter, "but the humans look better." Even animated actors can use a nip and tuck...
Having spent 18 months probing the moon's surface and interior, Lunar Prospector is running out of fuel, and is expected to crash at the end of July. Rather than just let it go, however, NASA decided to give the satellite a final mission: to take aim at a crater near the moon's south pole and slam into it at 3,600 M.P.H...
...idea is to crash Prospector into what NASA scientists think might be a huge ice field and hope the impact sends up an icy spray big enough to be spotted--and measured--by the Hubble and ground-based telescopes. Controllers need to fly it into the right crater at just the right angle, and smack bang into the middle of the ice field. Says University of Texas aerospace engineer David Goldstein, who proposed the suicide splashdown: "It's going to be a close call...