Chapter One
1. University of Toronto Library, “Hughes (Elizabeth) Papers”; available online at http://www.library.utoront o.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/hughes_elizabeth.pdf.
2. “Mary Carmichael and Sharon Begley, “Desperately Seeking Cures,”
3. Henkles & McCoy, “1969”; available online at http://www.henkels.com/Timeline/Pages/TL1969.a spx.
4. Remarks during Special Joint Session of Congress in Washington, D.C., May 25, 1961; facts available online http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/history/.
5. William Safire, “In Event of Moon Disaster,” memo to President Richard Nixon, July 18, 1969; available online at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/whitehouse-lost-space-scenarios.
6. Bruce Charlton, “Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined,” Bruce Charlton’s Miscellany blog, June 22, 2011; available online at http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/06/human-capability-peaked-about-1975- and.html.
7. Remarks on Al Jazeera’s Talk to Al Jazeera, June 30, 2010; available online at http://english. aljazeera.net/programmes/talktojazeera/2010/07/201071122234471970.html.
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9. Jeanne Sahadi, “Obama sketches out recovery plan,” CNNMoney.com, January 3, 2009; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/03/news/economy/obama_stimulus/index.htm? postversion=2009010306.
10. Katrina vanden Heuvel, “A Trillion Dollar Recovery,”
11. Mark I. Pinksy, “Write Now,”
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at the Dedication of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam,” September 30, 1935; available online http://books.google.com/books? id=SYeEmU2aW9EC&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=This+morning+I+came,+I+saw,+and+I+was +conquered,+as+everyone+would+be+who+sees+for+the+first+time+this+great+feat+of +mankind&source=bl&ots=_ei3wFH-9M&sig=zAhdn5KDbUAmQWQM9oNv6-UAN- 8&hl=en&ei=3wLUTZOaIej30gGQ1JTYCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum =1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=This%20morning%20I%20came%2C%20I%20saw%2C %20and%20I%20was%20conquered%2C%20as%20everyone%20would%20be%20who%20sees%20for %20the%20first%20time%20this%20great%20feat%20of%20mankind&f=false.
13. Remarks made during an Urban Land Institute symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 8-9, 2009; facts available online at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/11 10/45376_Page2.html, http://atlincolnhouse.typepad.com/weblog/2009/12/talking-water.html, and http://www.uli.org/sitecore/content/ULI2Home/ResearchAndPublications/CenterfortheWest/WaterSummit.as px.
14. Mushtaq Yufzai, “Taliban Commanders See Victory in the Sacking of U.S. General,”
15. Remarks during State of the Union Address in Washington, DC, January 20, 2004; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- srv/politics/transcripts/bushtext_012004.html. The actual quote is: “I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.”
16. Anthony Tommasini, “Music; The Devil Made Him Do It,”
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18. Remarks on WOR radio in New York, New York, February 19, 2010; available online at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-02-19/local/27056722_1_port-authority-larry-silverstein-world- trade-center.
19. CNN, “38 Years Ago, World Trade Center Opened,” April 4, 2011; available online at http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/04/38-years-ago-world-trade-center-opened/.
20. Jim Yardley, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs,”
21. Facts available online at Burj Khalifa’s website; http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/.
22. Henry Mance, “Brazil’s huge river diversion project divides opinion,” BBC News, April 12, 2010; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8575010.stm.
23. James Lileks, “NRO Symposium: Did It Change Us?”
