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When he turned his attention upward and outward-away from earth and toward the vast reaches of space-Carpenter discovered that the interiors of future spaceships will have to be redesigned if passengers are to get a clear look at the starry sky. Since he had to keep watching his instruments, Carpenter could not turn off Aurora 7's panel lights, so his eyes never became adapted to darkness; he saw no more stars than are visible from earth. He did not see the Gegenschein, a comet-like trail of particles that is believed to follow the earth...
Over the last 60 years, prices have edged upward at a rate of 2½% a year-while the U.S. economy achieved the most remarkable growth in the world's history...
...Legend has it that Wall Street's use of the word "bull" comes from the upward toss that a bull gives his horns before charging ahead, while the use of "bear" to describe a short seller comes from the old saying about "selling a bearskin before the bear is caught...
Sweat & Lust. "We, as human beings, are all miserable persons, heartless, small, insignificant," wrote Kazantzakis in his personal credo, The Saviors of God. "But within us a superior essence drives us ruthlessly upward. From within this human mire divine songs have welled up, great ideas, violent loves, an unsleeping assault full of mystery...
...their muscles or their brains, women their bodies. It's all the same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what he can now clearly see is the good life. He overpowers the crook he works for and spirals upward, swiftly becoming an international financier, running stupendous treasuries through his fingers like sand. The camel jumps gracefully through the eye of the needle into the sheer heaven of riches on earth...