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Hopi Snake Dance....impressions

By we are stardust on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 1:26pm |
  Sometime in August of some year...we decided to go to Snake Dance in Hopi.  This year it would be held in Shongopovi, Second Mesa.     Howard Morgan, the then-famous Albuquerque weather man had been following the long summer...
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Zuni Dreamtime.....a story

By we are stardust on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 5:54pm |
  We stopped at a trading post near Moenkopi, Arizona, at the west end of the Hopi Villages.  I can't remember why were there, nor can I remember how on earth we came to be approaching the villages from the...
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Joe . . . a sketch, not a story

By we are stardust on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 6:02pm |
  Joe believed in UFOs.  In a weird way, it suited him.    The sad truth is that it was almost too easy to see him as a character, more of a two-dimensional being.  It might not have been altogether...
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Albert the Blacksmith

By we are stardust on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 12:09pm |
  I was already having second thoughts.  I'd been sent on an errand by The Boss; well, really she was my husband's boss, but I was a handy unpaid extra, and I got pressed into service here and there. ...
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European Space Agency's Herschel Telescope: Mapping the Universe's Past

By we are stardust on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:41pm |
Last week Nova aired a program on the evolution of telescopes.  Galileo and on through the ages, changes bigger and better in fits and starts: refractors, reflectors mirrors growing bigger and bigger, to Hubble, and now: The Herschel Space Observatory...
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Financial Reform: What a few outside economists are saying

By we are stardust on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 5:55pm |
      Conventional Beltway thinking says that 'some sort of financial reform package' will be passed fairly soon.  The bill that's already been passed in the House  apparently has some strengths that Chris Dodd's Senate bill lacks, but...
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Longest US War Ever: Afghanistan, Year 9

By we are stardust on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 10:07am |
  Four Star GEneral Stanley McChrystal Friday night Bill Moyers hosted Andrew Bacevich to speak about the war in Afghanistan.  It's likely you've seen other interviews with Bacevich, a West Point graduate who served in the army for 23...
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Morpheus, Morpheus

By we are stardust on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 5:32pm |
Painting of Morpheus,Phantasos and Iris by baron Guerin       "Mama!  Mamaaa!" he cried from the kids' dark bedroom.  I went to him; he was curled up on his knees on the top bunk bed, face streaming tears....
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Merry Christmas / Call the Police (a story)

By we are stardust on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 11:57am |
    My father's parents lived in Shaker Heights.  On Van Aken Boulevard, a wide street with a grassy strip the middle for the Rapid Transit tracks down the center.  The cars were powered through a metal rod that scooted along electrical wires strung...
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Update on Considerations of Robotic War

By we are stardust on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 10:46am |
I posted this diary on Drones recently, and wanted to update it.  We need to have the discussion on drone war.  The US use of drones is increasing massively, both abroad and domestically.  Some are capable of only reconnaissance and logistics, but...

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