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...trip to Mars would cost an estimated $500 billion!), its supporters argue that it is needed for today. In this age of cynicism and hopelessness, they say, it will give our nation a much-needed boost of self-esteem. Says astronaut Eugene Cernan of his trip to the moon: "We did things that people thought could not be done...I know most people at the time thought it was impossible." The Space Station would be to the `90's what the Apollo program was to the `60's: a beacon of hope, a symbol of humanity overcoming insurmountable obstacles, with...
...young man growing up on a vast Montana ranch early in this century, Tristan is unduly influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak--stilted language with many references to nature (``It was in the moon of the red grass,'' he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying...
Moran notes that the VLBA is so powerful that"if you were on the moon, we could use [it] tomeasure how fast your fingernails were growing...
...place,'' he observes. ``The people conduct themselves with great self- control. Shoganai--it can't be helped--is a phrase I heard a lot last week. It was a sense of monumental tragedy that had arrived and would pass, like so many before it.'' Looking up at the full moon after long nights of work, he found it hard to believe the disaster had really happened. Still, he stocked up on rations and bought helmets for his wife and three children...
...Tuesday night in Nishinomiya, Lieut. Tsutomu Fujii and 10 of his men from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were digging away in such a ruin. They toiled through a frigid night lighted only by a full moon, while the daughter of the house stood nearby, sniffing back tears. Eventually they excavated her parents, gently placed their bodies on litters cobbled out of a broken door and a kitchen counter, and loaded them on a truck headed for a makeshift morgue. Lieut. Fujii had dug out seven corpses since morning, turning him into something of an instant expert. ``That couple seems...