Word: mission
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebuttal in which he accuses Keats (and every other romantic poet who criticized science) as being patently wrong. Although Dawkins' writing is lush and poetic, his approach is bizarre and confusing. Dawkins wants to say ultimately, that Newton was no different from Keats. Both made it their life's mission to seek understanding of the world around them. But what Dawkins ends up doing is attacking Keats and bathing his whole argument in the same scientific hubris to which the romantic poets objected. Some of Dawkins' claims are particularly outlandish. He declares that "Keats might have been a better poet...
...able to provide the textbooks based on being more profitable in other areas of the store," Murphy says. He explains that serving the needs of Harvard and MIT students is not a road to profit for the store but part of its core mission...
...launch control center 36 years ago, when John Glenn made his first orbit of the earth [SPACE, Nov. 9]. I spent 20 years in manned space flight, and am now 65 and retired. When I was 48, I applied to become a mission specialist, but, alas, was deemed "too old." Glenn's second space trip has given me new hope! Maybe in 12 years, when I'm 77 like he is now, space travel will be available to anyone with the health and determination to go. If that happens, we'll look back on this mission as the milestone that...
...past few years the law of diminishing returns has certainly applied to NASA. But not to worry. To rejuvenate a failing mission, the agency is granting larks to aging Senators in hope of securing future budget approvals. The Glenn trip is much ado about politics. ROBERT LUCE North Muskegon, Mich...
...more ambitious scheme--such as sending the U.S. Army on a search-and-destroy-Saddam mission--is politically and militarily foolish. Gulf War Army veteran John Hillen, a military strategist with the Council on Foreign Relations, believes such a campaign would be feasible only if Saddam did something really stupid, such as another lunge into Kuwait or a spectacular act of terrorism against U.S. citizens...