At 11:54 07-03-01 -0600, you wrote:
>Today's Wall Street Journal (print, I have no idea about anything online)
>has an editorial by Homer Hickam, the author of _Rocket Boys_ (on which
>the movie _October Sky_ was based). I don't know what he talks about in
>the editorial yet, I can't get my grubby little paws on it until Dan is
>done with his paper & lunch, but it's there. (Near the back of Section A,
>if you're not familiar with the WSJ but can get your hands on that section
>of today's.)
>
>I *did* see a cartoon drawing associated with some editorial, and I
>believe it was Hickam's; the drawing looks something like a space shuttle.
>(At the angle I was seeing it, and the cartoony-ness of it, it's hard to
>be absolutely sure.)
>
> Julia
Thanks for bringing that to our attention, Julia. It's on page A22, for
anyone looking.
And on the front page of the same paper (Wednesday, 7 Mar WSJ), there's
this little item:
"Russian space officials are negotiating a $200 million insurance policy as
they prepare to send space station Mir plunging into the Pacific this
month. Until now, Moscow has insisted that the operation poses no danger."
-- Ronn! :)
