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The commercial spaceflight firm SpaceX is planning a rocket launch early Thursday morning after high winds forced the company to scrap a liftoff scheduled for Wednesday. The recycled Falcon 9 rocket is expected to carry PAZ, an observation satellite financed…
For the first time ever, women in their 30s in the US are having more babies than women in their 20s, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s significant because older women can have…
“Enlightened through compassion, the innocent fool.” So sing the youths of Monsalvat, the mythical Spanish Gothic fortress that guards the Holy Grail in Wagner’s opera “Parsifal,” of the mysterious man who will arrive to save them from their impending doom.…
Photograph by Gary Moyes / BBC / Masterpiece “To Walk Invisible” Recently, in the midst of writer’s block, I did what I always do when marooned in the middle of a story: I sank into bed and surrendered to someone…
In 1936, Walt Disney approached Beatrix Potter with a proposal: he wished to make an animated movie based on “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” the classic children’s story, from 1902, with which she had begun her career. Potter’s biographers report…
World-famous evangelist Billy Graham died early Wednesday at the age of 99 in his mountain home in Montreat, North Carolina. But unlike most headlines today dealing with religion and conservatism and figures famous for both, the news of his death…
