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...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, a U.S.-led international effort that has already cost some $60 billion, is to be a constant outpost in the heavens. It hosted its first party of astro- and cosmonauts in the fall, and progress was monitored on the big screen at mission control...
...wealthy, East Coast elite. For a candidate short on biography, Midland solves a problem. There's no wartime heroism in Bush's past or a hardscrabble beginning. This is someone who concedes he was something of a mess until he was 40. For Bush's imagemakers, Midland provides terra firma, a place to anchor Bush in the popular imagination...
Step 3: Live and learn. Ishmael stays upbeat as he drifts afloat, but it doesn't take a deconstructionist to tell you he'll stick to terra firma ASAP. Bottom line: A friendly cannibal is no substitute for a human resources professional...
...stage for an angry voice. There's no ideological price of admission. The party, founded by Perot, welcomes earnest centrists eager for entitlement reform as well as anti-new world order conspiracists. So each potential candidate, from the hard left to hard right, can justifiably see it as terra firma...
...shuttle Discovery was apparently smart enough to come in out of a storm, returning safely to Earth last Saturday before the Leonid meteor shower could begin. The mission's glamour boy, however--veteran astronaut John Glenn--was a bit unsteady, both in orbit and on his return to terra firma...