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...known for decades—former President George H. W. Bush derisively called him “Ozone Man” during the 1992 presidential campaign—Kerry has never been far behind. In fact, the two Kerrys met when the senator and Teresa’s first husband, the late Senator John Heinz, a leading liberal Republican, were keynoting at an Earth Day rally in 1990. The authors begin with some decent, if unspectacular, examples of environmental destruction. They detail the work of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, and use her experiences as a springboard to discuss the challenges...
...talked about taking a vacation in space, hoping the opportunity would arise in their lifetimes. Unfortunately for Rhonda, it didn't: She died of a heart attack 17 months ago at her home in Stockton, California, at age 52. Having missed out on space travel in life, Rhonda's husband plans to offer her the next best thing on Saturday, when one gram of her cremated ashes soars into the heavens aboard a SpaceLoft XL rocket from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico...
...Saturday's flight may be Rhonda's first venture into space, but it won't be her last. As part of the package purchased by her husband, this fall her ashes will be inserted into a module attached to a satellite and will orbit earth at least one time before vaporizing upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. She may no longer be alive to savor the experience, but Rhonda Archbold is finally exploring the final frontier...
...Wende Doohan, widow of "Scotty," launced the rocket and astronaut Cooper's widow, Suzan, was also on hand with her daughters to see her husband become the first U.S. astronaut to return to space in the afterlife. "Obviously, I'll be revisiting some old emotions, but this will be nowhere as emotional as it was watching him go into space when he was alive," she said before the launch...
...into space as a posthumous celebration of her life on earth was an easy decision for Archbold, who paid $1,400 to Celestis, a company that pioneered memorial space flights in the 1990s. She had been a Star Trek fan since the first series on television and dragged her husband to many Trekkie conventions, where they had often seen "Scotty...