Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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BUCK ROGERS started a lot of it. There was science-fiction before Buck, and there probably would have been a lot of sci-fi without him, but Buck Rogers turned on a lot of kids to anti-gravity and rayguns and flights to the moon-among them Ray Bradbury, who wrote the introduction to the present mammoth volume of Buck Rogers strips...
During a solar eclipse, the moon comes directly between the earth and the sun, and its shadow, the umbra, sweeps a narrow path across the earth. On March 7, the 100-mile wide path of totality will start in the eastern Pacifre and cross Mexico, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia...
After skirting the eastern coastline, the umbra will pass over Nantucket Island. The moon's outer shadow, or penumbra, however, will cause a partialeclipse that will be visible from most of North America...
...Mexico, the total eclipse will occur at 11:30 a. m., and will last for three minutes. It will reach Nantucket at 1:30 p. m. The whole process of the moon passing in front of the sun will last for two hours...
Basic to all solutions is the need for a new way of thinking. So far, the key to so-called progress has been man's ability to focus his energies on a single problem, whether fighting a war or going to the moon. But thinking in compartments is the road to environmental disaster. Americans must view the world in terms of unities rather than units. To recognize the interdependence of all creatures is to see all kinds of follies?from the one-occupant cars that choke highways to the tax policies that discourage mass transit and land preservation...