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Yogi? Casper? Flat Top? Scooby Doo? The naming of these rocks and formations [SPACE, July 21] seems shrewd as a public relations ploy, but flies in the face of naming heavenly bodies after illustrious figures of myth, science and literature. Will the first earthly Mars walker who greets these familiar objects on site at Ares Vallis be likely to record for posterity the query "Dr. Boo-Boo, I presume"? Is this a failure of our educational system? Did the ingenious individuals who are involved in this project not avail themselves of the liberal-arts curriculums at their distinguished universities...
...based throughout the country. With Nation editor Priscilla Painton prodding them to think unconventionally and dig deeper, they spent months scouting out stories and reporting them in depth. She and Steve Koepp, in addition to spending time on the bus, edited the issue. It features the pictures of Diana Walker, who took a break from her usual assignment as our White House photographer to join us on the road...
...HALFTRACK, who was doddering when Beetle Bailey first joined the Army in 1951 and must by now be a very old dog indeed, is being sent for sensitivity training. "The real-life sexual-harassment problems the Army was having kind of spilled over onto us," says Beetle creator Mort Walker, 73, who has faced the wrath of feminists in the past. "Some editors felt that although we weren't condoning it, we were on the edge." So, no more chasing MISS BUXLEY around a desk or falling off his chair to get a better view when she walks past...
...social themes, imaginative staging and emotionally involving storytelling in a way that has all but vanished from the American musical. Terrence McNally's adaptation deftly re-creates Doctorow's tapestry of early 20th century America, with historical figures (Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman) mingling with fictional ones like Coalhouse Walker Jr., the ragtime pianist turned antiracism firebrand. Composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens supply a score alternately catchy (the ragtime numbers) and affecting (a wife's proto-feminist lament, Back to Before). And director Frank Galati and choreographer Graciela Daniele have created stage pictures that are both lovely and thematically...
...exclusively in TIME, the New American Dream study is ready for release. News flash! The youngsters are ambitious get-aheads--even more so than their parents or grandparents. They are confident, savvy and, the survey concludes with a measure of relief, materialistic. "Gen X is committed," enthuses J. Walker Smith, managing partner at the polling firm Yankelovich Partners. "Gen X is connected. Gen X craves success American-style...