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...that for astronauts--men and women in puffy suits who climb on top of 30 stories of exploding stuff and ride it to places none of the rest of us will ever get to see. That's the most compelling reason we spend the money we spend. Bush nodded in that direction in his speech last week, but it was only that--a nod. It will take something closer to an embrace to get us all the way to Mars...
...original Queen Mary, 113 ft. shorter than QM2, is now a floating hotel in Long Beach, Calif. The QM2 has some of the old ship's glamour--and, with a nod to nostalgia, one of its whistles. But the focus is catering to modern taste: the QM2 offers the only planetarium at sea, the largest dance floor afloat, education-lite courses by Oxford professors and a luxurious 20,000-sq.-ft. spa run by the upscale Canyon Ranch chain. Cabins are comparatively roomy, and three-quarters of them have balconies. Some observers on the preliminary tour complained that the furniture...
...swing vote in several 5-to-4 rulings, O'Connor brought her pragmatic, just-right-of-center judicial approach to some of the court's biggest decisions. Campaign-finance restrictions, the use of race in university admissions, California's "three strikes" laws--all were upheld last year with her nod...
...audience. Asked in Nashua, N.H., last week about the trade deficit, Clark noted in the course of a dense reply, "Those of you who studied economics will remember Adam Smith's case of Portuguese wine wrapped in English cloth." He peered at the audience, searching fruitlessly for a nod of acknowledgment. Receiving noneperhaps because the wine-and-cloth analogy was David Ricardo'she added incomprehensibly, "Well, we're a long way from that...
...sight, bionic technology was mostly considered fantasy. "When we started, what we proposed was such a radically different approach to incurable eye disease that the idea was considered science fiction," says Chow, 50. But with 10 trial operations since 2000, Chow and Optobionics are inching closer to the regulatory nod that would usher their bionic device into the mainstream medical world...