Thomas Hardy lived to be 200 years old, or so it must have seemed to his literary competitors. He reached prominence in 1872 with his second novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, and was going strong half a century later.
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Air Safety: FAA Readies Satellite-Based Traffic Control
Scheduled nap times may help eliminate the problem of air-traffic controllers who fall asleep on the job.
Shameful Bequests to The Next Generation
George Bush knows how to talk about children. With a sure sense of childhood’s mythology, of skinned knees and candy apples and first bicycles, he campaigned for office in a swarm of jolly grandchildren and promised justice for all.
Painting: Germany’s First Master
He was little more than a name till the late 19th century, and not until this year did scholars and the public have an opportunity to see all his works in one place. The place was Hamburg's Kunsthalle, and the occasion the celebration of its 100th anniversary.
Gaddafi: Obsessed By a Ruthless, Messianic Vision
In the movie reel of his imagination, he sees himself standing alone in the desert, silhouetted against the moon, swathed in traditional Bedouin robes, a farsighted prophet of Islam and the mighty creator of the Great Arab Nation, stretching from the warm Persian Gulf to the dark Atlantic Ocean–a nation that would eclipse the West in power and glory and purity.
Box Office: Rio Bravo, But Scre4m Soft
The cartoon birds soared; the slashers got diced and sliced.
50th Anniversary of the Pill: Love, Sex, Freedom and Paradox
There’s no such thing as the Car or the Shoe or the Laundry Soap. But everyone knows the Pill, whose FDA approval 50 years ago rearranged the furniture of human relations in ways that we’ve argued about ever since.
Tallying Biofuels’ Real Environmental Cost
The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S.
Rio: Birds of a Fabulous Feather
It’s a toga party at the Tiki Room. In the first minutes of Rio, the new animated feature from 20th Century Fox’s Blue Sky studio, the 3-D screen explodes in a riot of tropical plumage.
Catholic Controversy: Is ‘Being’ Superior to ‘Substance’?
Back in Christianity’s early days, petty semantics could cause powerful schisms. A big reason the western and eastern churches split was a bitter dispute over the addition of three words, “and the Son” to the 4th-century statement of Christian belief, the Nicene Creed