Correspondence
Correspondence FEMINIST FOLLIES I guess I have both a higher and a lower opinion of modern women's attempts to look good than David Brooks expresses in "Our Bodies, Our Surgeons" (Feb. 7). On the...
...WESLEY PARDUE Tampa, FL...
...All are now being mentored in their community...
...Women these days don't know if their husbands will dump them or not (even conservative stalwarts like Bob Dole traded up), and so have to work harder to keep them (assuming they have a husband...
...Why let something so disgusting take up valuable space in your magazine...
...While many inmates have been released early (and thus do not count in the recidivism statistics), only 31 inmates have completed the entire 18-month course and thus have graduated...
...Please be more sensitive to the multitude of conservative readers like us who expect a higher standard of decency from you...
...however, not all of them were novels...
...That would be an impressive statistic, but the actual figures are far more impressive...
...7 magazine, which we thought was in poor taste and highly unnecessary...
...DAVID G.D...
...Pure scientific research is not engineering...
...Our experiences and lessons learned from that effort, on a body some 238,000 miles from home, rather than millions, are the requisite "baby steps" before mankind strides to the planets...
...Some were science fiction novels, some were anthologies of science fiction short stories (I cannot remember if the number includes only those works composed exclusively of his own work or if there are anthologies of which he was "only" the editor), some were collections of essays on diverse subjects (Asimov was an autodidact polymath), and some were the famous Asimov's Guides (long before we had elevated ignorance to a cult with The Complete Idiot's Guides and so forth, Asimov wrote several witty popularizations, including Asimov's Guide to the Bible and Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare...
...On the other hand, I don't think that women these days work harder to look good out of a sense of feminist "empowerment," but out of a sense of abandonment...
...1, let us out for every Apollo-Saturn launch...
...A final point: Of what use was calculus in the 17th century when invented by Newton and Leibniz...
...We trusted that the photographs would be of equal caliber...
...In referring to the prison we run in Houston, the first Christian-run facility in America, Thomas notes that out of the first 100 graduates, only 16 have reoffended...
...none has returned to prison...
...At that time, practically none...
...But Thomas's case is even stronger than he thinks...
...The passe attitude that has enveloped the entire space program, at least on the part of the politicians and the general population, reflects the short-sighted, "gimme-a-quick-thrill" attitude that has permeated our society...
...We were extremely disappointed to see the cover of your Feb...
...HECHT Alexandria, VA GOOD NEWS ON CRIME The recent article by Andrew Peyton Thomas is a superb analysis of the criminal justice problem in America ("Completing the War on Crime," Jan...
...My one dispute with Krauthammer's analysis lies in his sequencing of events...
...It was truly an exciting time to grow up...
...The cover story was equally inappropriate, however much David Brooks disliked the performance he attended...
...On the one hand, I think that it's healthy to want to look good to the opposite sex, and I also have selfish reasons for hoping that women do so...
...While he acknowledges colonization of the moon as an important goal, i believe he fails to recognize this step as the sine qua non to planetary exploration...
...My father, who worked for a time on the space shuttle boosters when the Apollo program ended, quit in frustration, unwilling to work on a project that had no vision beyond going around in circles rather than building a permanent base on the moon...
...A bold leader for the 21st century, recognizing that the battle against social ills and the quest for knowledge should not be viewed as an "either/or" proposition but should be seen as "both/and," would do well to marshal this country's will, both scientific and economic, toward the goal of establishing a permanent colony on the moon within the next decade...
...Our high school, located on the Indian River and U.S...
...Podhoretz goes on to characterize Dr...
...Thank you...
...It is indeed sad to know that my own children will never know the excitement those of us growing up on the Space Coast in the 1960s knew...
...My father's job as an engineer on the Saturn v moon rocket brought our family to Titusville, Florida, in 1965...
...31 issue...
...Thomas's conclusion is right: Other states and the federal government should be picking up on this faith-based approach to solving the crime problem...
...No one is attempting to solve a specific problem but, rather, one is engaged in exploration for exploration's sake...
...Spiritual transformation does make the difference and is the answer to the crime problem...
...Given that the cover article for the issue in which this column appears is entitled "On To Mars," an issue on which Asimov was writing when the editorial staff of The Weekly Standard was still in diapers, I cannot help but sense a certain irony of which you seem unaware...
...CHRIS AND LORI HOOKE Ventura, CA THE REAL ASIMOV In an otherwise fine Casual column, John Podhoretz writes that "Isaac Asimov supposedly wrote 500 novels before his death . . ." ("On the McBain Beat," Jan...
...Isaac Asimov certainly had over 500 books published before his death...
...But, of course, that purely mathematical endeavor led to deeper understanding of physics and chemistry, which then led to the invention of all manner of aerospace, chemical, and electronic devices which we now take for granted...
...Can anyone dispute that today's advances in aerospace and electronics were the direct result of our efforts to land a man on the moon in the '60s and '70s...
...Asimov's subject matter as "surreal," which I beg to dispute...
...For both sexes the secret to looking good is also the secret to good health: Eat sensibly, drink water, and exercise regularly...
...DON SCHENK Allentown, PA We subscribed to The Weekly Standard because of its perceptive and insightful articles...
...CHARLES W. COLSON Prison Fellowship Ministries Washington, DC TO MARS AND BEYOND I would like to commend THE WEEKLY STANDARD and Charles Krauthammer for his article "On To Mars" in your Jan...
...Another prime example of this type of shortsightedness was the decision to mothball the superconducting super collider...
...The consequences often are of enormous benefit...
...RICK JANKA Longwood, FL Charles Krauthammer's article "On To Mars" was, in general, an accurate assessment of our national failure of will when it comes to funding "big science...
...Yes, we have quit looking at the stars and dreaming, and have instead retired to our 15-inch monitors to surf the Web and chase dancing icons...
Vol. 5 • February 2000 • No. 22
