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Touching down on the West Side of Manhattan in late winter was a wondrous new vehicle for transport to the stars: the Hayden Planetarium, centerpiece of the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space. The 87-foot aluminum sphere that is the Hayden's core seemed to float inside a 10-story glass-walled cube, which is the Hayden's outer shell. "A cosmic cathedral," was how architect James Polshek proudly described his creation. A planetarium is, of course, only a transmitter of outer space to those of us on terra firma. By contrast, the new space station...
...peaks of his professional achievements coincided with the nation's upheavals. But Schulz knew better than anyone that he could never really become a sunny citizen of the Golden State. He found little comfort in fame or prosperity or the California sun. Pain gave him his core. "I think that one of the things that afforded Sparky his greatness," a friend would say after his death, "was his unwillingness to turn his back on the pain...
...spoil a system spoiled to the core...
...sold, although Parsons denies this. And at Time Inc., the publishing division, there is concern that fledgling projects, including magazine start-ups, might be cut because the new regime is so short-term oriented. "The minute there is a case where we're being asked to cut into our core business because some other division didn't make its numbers, there's going to be trouble," says an executive. "If top people like Logan, [Jeff] Bewkes, [CEO of HBO] or Terry McGuirk [CEO of TBS] throw their hands up and leave, the AOL people won't have a clue...
...back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen will go to Portugal and somehow find 3,000 tons...