Adventures in Nature Honduras (Adventures in Nature)

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Most people don't consider Honduras when they think of a trip that includes sea kayaking, exploring Mayan ruins, and snorkeling, but this Central American country provides these and many more adventures in nature, all with the slower-paced benefits afforded by a less "discovered" destination. This book not only can help travelers create a fun adventure, but it also educates them about how their trip can positively impact the country. Without becoming pedantic, well-seasoned Honduran travelers James Gollin and Ron Mader explain how "tourism is an integral part of environmental preservation" in Honduras as they delve into the largest tract of remaining forest in all of Central America and swim along the longest coral reef in the Northern Hemisphere. Chapters provide advice on places to stay, where to eat, and how to get from one place to the next. Interesting sidebars provide profiles of environmental projects and problems while allowing travelers to learn how to become part of the solutions.

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Adventures in Nature: Honduras provides a realistic picture of the adventure travel opportunities in this relatively undiscovered destination. Adventures in Nature: Honduras brims with opinionated reviews of where to go, what to do, and where to eat and stay. At the same time, it also explains both sides of the country's environmental struggle: how political and economic forces are destroying nature and how local environmental groups are working to build a sustainable society. Author James Gollin mixes praise with criticism while directing you to nature-based activities that are fun and help preserve local rainforests, rivers, and reefs.

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Great book on Honduras.......2000-11-17

I spend alot of time in Honduras and own just about every guidebook for that country. Adventures in Nature is by far the most worn. It is a well researched book and provides countless ideas of places to go for the adventure traveler/tourist. I recently started running mountain bike tours in Honduras near La Ceiba and while setting them up last year and mapping out routes this book was always with me. If you're looking for a hotel, food, transportation, logistics, etc. book you may want to have another guidebook with you as well, but don't substitute it.

So is this a guidebook for people who never go to Honduras?.......2000-08-21

So just before I went to Honduras I bought Adventures in Nature, and you know what? I found myself borrowing the Honduras Handbook and the Lonely Planet guide left and right. While Adventures in Nature provides an interesting read, it is almost useless as a travel guide. For one, it has extremely limited coverage. For example, I was going to Comayagua and found *nothing* on this wonderful, fairly major colonial mountain town. It instead refers you to another publication put out in Honduras- which I certainly didn't have when I was planning my trip. Further, even for the cities and towns it does cover it provides you with only the very high end or the very cheapest hotels and eating establishments, and not a lot of them. Nor does it contain a listing of essential services, such as where to go in the event of a medical emergency for decent 24 hour care(pretty essential information which most Hondurans on the street cannot provide you with as I found out one Sunday evening), or the number to call if you need to get in touch with the local police, or other such services. It contains NO maps for the towns that it does include--including such biggies as San Pedro and Tegucigalpa. It also fails to provide you with decent information on how to get to one place or another without renting a car--that is where the various busses leave from and go to.

In short, Adventures in Nature may be just great for those looking wanting to read about Honduras, or who are looking to spend $100-300 a night in Honduras while staying in accommodations that make it just like the U.S., but for those who actually want to go to Honduras and have a real Central American experience (or who simply travel/live on real budgets) it is a very poor choice. You can get more or less the same background material and a great deal better practical information in the Honduras Handbook or the Lonely Planet guide. Even being a few years out of date they were FAR more useful. I am only grateful that my travelling companions chose better guidebooks than I did.

A must for all travelers to Honduras.......2000-01-13

I am the author of two other guidebooks in the "Adventures in Nature" series (on Belize and Guatemala) of which this is a part. I was originally asked to write the Honduras guide, but declined on the grounds that I didn't know enough about the country to do a good job. I'm happy to report that Ron Mader and Jim Gollin have done a BETTER than "good" job...in fact the results of their combined efforts are excellent in all respects. Their intelligence and insight come through on every page, along with a genuine affection for the people and places of Honduras. I have been to the country twice in recent years, and my experiences are congruent with those reported in this book. I particularly appreciate the straightforward and honest appraisal of hotels, restaurants, and outfitters, as well as the indepth material about the natural wonders of this underrated and underappreciated Central American destination. Put simply, this is the best guide to the country I have ever seen. Buy it!

THE best book on Honduras for the ecotraveler!.......1999-06-04

For those venturing to discover the hidden secret of Honduras, this is the best guidebook you can have. It's not your ordinary where-to-eat-shop-stay book; rather, it caters to the ecotourist who comes to appreciate the sublime beauty of this lesser-traveled country. Honduras is a land of many treasures, few of which I've had the fortune to explore; but this book has inspired me to go back for more. From the helpful tips and sidebars to the excellent details about the wonder of Honduras, this book will lead you off the beaten path to discover this fabulous country on your own. Don't go to Honduras without it!

Gollin and Mader have created the Honduras Bible.......1999-03-04

So-called Tour Guides, despite fancy price tags, frequently turn out to be worth the dime of that cliche ending in the word "dozen." James D. Gollin's and Ron Mader's recently-published HONDURAS is a brilliant exception. This, I know because I'm an accidental expert on the guidebook genre. In 1998 I logged 120,000 air-travel miles, commuting to various foreign outposts on business-related tasks. My library includes hundreds of travel books containing pretty pictures and little else of substance.

Early in '99 I received an unexpected assignment to Honduras, unfamiliar territory for me. With a mere few days' notice, there was little doubt that I'd arrive unprepared. Gollin's and Mader's extraordinary work interceded.

Obtaining HONDURAS only hours pre-flight, on the plane I scribbled pages of notes which were to prove invaluable. Two weeks later, the paperback published by John Muir Publications (in itself an endorsement) was tattered and torn. Not because it's poorly bound but, rather, as further testimony to the superb quality of this Gollin-Mader joint endeavor. Having agreed to volunteer services for a Hurricane Mitch Relief organization, I met up with others on the same mission. In turn, each tended to leaf through my book during long road trips and cargo flights carrying medication and food to stricken areas. Inevitably I saw impressions similar to mine, attention riveted, pens drawn from pockets containing tiny spiral notepads. Many among the various groups were professional journalists and long-time Honduran expatriates, hungry for reliable data and background.

What's so different about this work?

Care. Detail. Depth. Knowledge. Reliability.

Sudden unexpected paragraphs offer that rarity called Real Insight, the type which inspires well-earned "Ah, so!" reactions. Like, "NOW I've got it."

HONDURAS keeps working for those of us who, since our return, have ordered additional copies. Example:

In February, N. American media skimmed over an amazing story: Honduras' El Cajon power plant caught fire. The inferno took out electricity over most of the country for five days, finally soliciting US assistance in the form of Alabama super-firefighters, who joined Mexican counterparts. Despite my recent return, I had no idea of El Cajon's location, much less what might have led to additional devastation for a population already done in by this century's worst disaster. On page 88, I found a complete summary entitled "Solving the El Cajon Problem." It includes this quote from a Honduran project spokesman: "It's insane... They spent the better part of a billion dollars on the dam, but not $5,000 on protecting the watershed."

Ron Mader is a well-known and -respected journalist. Fortunately, I knew to ask my local retailer whether he had tackled a book on the country of Honduras; that's because I possess Mader's also-excellent book MEXICO. Mr. Mader's commitment to C. American, and his deep knowledge base is further evident via his website Planeta, a nonprofit resource of more than 8000 pages.

James D. Gollin is a renowned philanthropist, writer and award-winning photographer whose far above-average work has appeared in publications ranging from the New York Times to [Rodale's] Scuba Diving.

Together, Gollin and Mader have fashioned a work which we who volunteered nicknamed The Honduras Bible. We wanted to make a meaningful contribution, and HONDURAS made a big difference in accomplishment of that goal. Understanding the country of Honduras, as well as its neighbors, is important for more than humanitarian reasons. Many N. Americans have yet to grasp the following critical political-environmental point:

As the welfare of C. America goes, so too does ours.

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Adventures in Nature: Honduras (Adventures in Nature Series)
James D. Gollin
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QYAOOW

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Outstanding introduction to freestyle wrestling
Wrestling was never so easy
Getting Into Wrestling

Beginning Wrestling
Thomas Ryan , and Julie Sampson
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 1402701071

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It's like playing chess with your body--moves and countermoves that outwit and overpower your opponent. Once you learn the basic rules of school-style wrestling, and the strategies for winning matches, you're on your way to being a champion. And, whatever your age, size, or athletic ability, there is a place for you in the sport. It's a matter of getting yourself physically and mentally fit. Find out the right equipment to buy, especially shoes and headgear. Then, practice starting positions, following the instructions and photos of each stance. Add the essential offensive and defensive strategies, including inside step series, level changes, takedowns, and common countermoves. Learn to move and feint to create proper angles of attack, and control your opponent at will. A master plan shows how to set and reach weekly, monthly, and season-long goals. Sidebars feature famous people who got their start in wrestling.

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Outstanding introduction to freestyle wrestling.......2004-12-10

Most guides to combat sports are hampered by poor quality photography. This short, good-value book is an exception. The large, full-color photos show clearly how to execute moves and the text contains lots of personal testimonies from experienced wrestlers past and present.

Wrestling was never so easy.......2001-11-01

Only one word. Great!!! This book improved my wrestling skills. Wow, I loved the photo's too.

Phil

Getting Into Wrestling.......2001-10-27

I've been wrestling for a few years and when I saw this book I was so excited to see a wrestling book in color. When I got the book I was quite pleased with all the advice from coaches and Olympic wrestlers. It's all really practical information and I feel like this will help me stay focused this season. I like the step by step instruction as well. Everything is explained so I can understand it and apply it. I think this is a great book for anyone currently wrestling.

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Beginning wrestling (Wadsworth sports skills series)
M. Briggs Hunt
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Pub. Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Naphtali: Or, The wrestlings of the Church of Scotland for the kingdom of Christ ; contained in a true and short deduction thereof, from the beginning ... the sufferings and death of Mr. Hew McKail

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Naphtali: Or, The wrestlings of the Church of Scotland for the kingdom of Christ ; contained in a true and short deduction thereof, from the beginning ... the sufferings and death of Mr. Hew McKail
James Stewart
Manufacturer: James Dewar & son
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ASIN: B00089662Y

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Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits because he has no family whatsoever, have been on the hook from their eighth-grade

classroom all semester.

Most of the time they have been in the school building -- in a secret cellar room behind a false wall, where Mr. Pool, the janitor, has made a model of the solar system. They have been pressing their luck for months...and then they are caught. As society -- in the form of a zealous assistant principal -- closes in on them, Junior's fantasies become more desperate, and Buddy draws on all his resources to ensure his friend's well-being.

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StEpHeN ..........2004-03-11

This is one of the most imaginative, insightful, moving, and challenging book I've ever read. Virgina Hamilton writes with her usual brilliant style with a blend of poetic lyricsm and realistic talk. Now Junior Brown is a kid who takes music lessons after school every day and his friend Buddy follows him to each of his lessons but he never goes in cause they are completely different characters. He always just sits outside. junior has a very over protective mother and on the other side Buddy has a mother that isn't very protective. I think that this is a very good book and fully encourages kids around the world to read this book.

Good Literature!.......2000-05-17

I read the Planet of Junior Brown as a reading book for myeighth grade english class. My class read books while we were readingTo Kill a Mockingbird. The Planet of Junior Brown is a wonderfully written book. Despite the other reviews I have read I really was impressed with the characterization. Some people thought that the characters were shallow and didn't convey feeling and emotion. I heavily disagree. The thing I really liked about the book was how the two main characters were so unlike each other, both emotionally and physically. One character is always trying to teach the other something and they are both unwilling to learn it because it is so unlike them. Junior Brown is an obese black boy who is a an amazing piano player. His father doesn't live with him and his mother is very over protective. Junior isn't naive but he doesn't know much about the world around him. Junior's best and only friend, Buddy, is the exact opposite. Buddy Is a tall lanky black boy who has lived his life on the street. Buddy encourages Junior to try and become more independent and self reliant. However, Junior's other doesn't want to let go of Junior. She sees buddy as a threat to Junior. She thinks Buddy will harm him. Seeing as how her husband doesn't live with her it is easy to understand how she doesn't want to let go. Junior is all she has. It was very interesting to read To Kill a Mockingbird while I read this book. They had many things in common. In To Kill a Mockingbird scout encounters racism as a white person. In The Planet of Junior Brown Junior encounters racism as a black person. I thought it was interesting to see the same thing from two different angles. The plot of the story is very interesting. Although it has it's moments where it gets dull and you have to read the page over again it was pretty exiting. Virginia Hamilton was able to create multiple themes throughout the story. While reading the book there were moments where it was depressing, suspenseful, and moments of anger. Near the end of the story Junior starts seeing things and talking to people who aren't their. At the same time they have just been caught for not going to school. It was depressing to see how Buddy was worried about Junior. I imagined myself trying to help one of my friends who wasn't all their anymore. It was sad to think about.

All In all I was very happy to read The Planet of Junior Brown. It really made me realize how difficult life is for some people. Through this book I was able to reach a new understanding for people with mental problems, and a new respect for the people who help them everyday.

A big waste of your time but an easy 'A'.......2000-01-20

I call this book an easy 'A' because its tha kind of book that your older English teacher will shove in your face as 'great' and if you give it a good book report then you will get an 'A'. This book might have been hot for kids in tha 1970s when it was written but getting through it today is like wading through a muddy swamp of outdated words and situations. Like two reviewers already said you wonder if it will ever end. I am a chubby kid of 14 and many of my friends are fat. I did not feel that the author knew anything about 'fat kids' at all and I also wondered if she really knew anything about homeless kids even in tha 1970s. Check out some books by Jess Mowry, Apollo, or Walter Dean Myers if you want what's on tha real today. This book seems like another one of those books written about kids but not really FOR kids if you know what I'm saying. And tha people who give book awards are not kids either. But if you can get through it out dying of terminal boredom you'll probably get that 'A'.

Junior Brown showed me an unknown world........1999-11-14

I really enjoyed Junior Brown, but all my preconceived notions were turned upside down. The villains were heros and the heros were villains. Thank you Virginia Hamilton for making me think about something I'd rather not: homeless children. The Buddy Clarks in this world are what it's all about!

Dazzling novel, one of the best for young adults ever!.......1999-05-27

This is one of the most imaginative, insightful, moving and challenging books I have ever read. Hamilton writes with her usual brilliant style--a blend of poetic lyricism and realistic talk. Buddy and Junior are wonderful characters--friends as loyal as Huck and Tom (transported to a nightmarish world. The novel is a very modern, urban riff on "Peter Pan," as well. I have read (and taught to college students) it two or three times and each time I find even more to admire.

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The Planet Of Junior Brown
Virginia Hamilton
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The Planet Of Junior Brown

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Planet of Junior Brown
Tisha Hamilton
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The Planet of Junior Brown

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Mission to Mars: U.S. astronauts may again walk on the moon--and someday land on Mars.(USA): An article from: Junior Scholastic

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Mission to Mars: U.S. astronauts may again walk on the moon--and someday land on Mars.(USA): An article from: Junior Scholastic
Bryan Brown
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This digital document is an article from Junior Scholastic, published by Scholastic, Inc. on March 8, 2004. The length of the article is 1266 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mission to Mars: U.S. astronauts may again walk on the moon--and someday land on Mars.(USA)
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Date: March 8, 2004
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