Thanksgiving News Headlines
Posted on November 23, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Boston, Misc., Places | Leave a Comment
“President Bush Pardons Thanksgiving Turkey”
Oh, no! It is tempting, this almost irresistible urge to wax clever, to get sucked into a wormhole of swirling simile and mixed but not shaken metaphor that drips like grease from a baking pan. But I won’t.
But I did find reason to give thanks in Boston last Sunday, and [...]
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Standard Podcast [3:13m]: Moon Shot: Flash Gordon Meets Jack’s Beanstalk
Posted on November 17, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Would you really like to be shot into space? Honest, would you take pleasure in being stuffed in an unwieldy suit (with a diaper no less), enduring cookie-tossing, face-contorting g-forces just on the outside chance that you might “touch the face of God?†I once asked astronaut Buzz Aldrin if there was one peak experience [...]
Read More..>>Airless Travel
Posted on November 6, 2006 - Filed Under China | Leave a Comment
I know what it means to vanish into thin air. I once flew up past Everest base camp, as far as an unpressurized helicopter could go and descended in one day. I was sick for days. I spent a week at 10 thousand-plus feet in Yunnan Province, China this spring (see our story) and fought [...]
Read More..>>Game Hen: In Search of Manhattan’s Tic Tac Toe Playing Chicken
Posted on November 4, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., New York | Leave a Comment
So, why am I in New York looking for a chicken.
I first learned about a certain curious cluck in my local newspaper. At a trial in Marin County, California, where I live, a psychologist testified that the fact that a defendant in a murder trial was able to compete in a game of tic tac [...]
