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To: Neocon who wrote (1453)	11/12/1999 9:43:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

There they go again: MINOR MEMOS: Gorby who? At Germany's 10th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, attended by former Russian leader Gorbachev, a clip of Reagan's famous demand, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," is edited to delete the reference to Gorbachev .... interactive.wsj.com

To: Neocon who wrote (1453)	11/12/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Here's a fun suggestion, someone you've probably never heard of and one hell of a role model for women: Louise Arner Boyd Boyd, Louise Arner (1887-1972), American explorer of the Arctic Ocean and the first woman to fly over the North Pole. Boyd was born to a wealthy family in San Rafael, California, a suburb of San Francisco. Boyd inherited her family's fortune in 1920 and spent the next few years traveling in Europe. Her interest in polar exploration began in 1924 when she first visited Arctic regions aboard a Norwegian cruise ship. Two years later Boyd chartered a Norwegian ship and took a group of friends on a trip from Norway into the Arctic Ocean. They visited Franz Josef Land, the island chain north of European Russia, where they hunted polar bears and seals. In 1928 Boyd led an expedition to find Norwegian Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen, who had disappeared while flying a rescue mission in search of Italian explorer and engineer Umberto Nobile. Financing the venture herself, Boyd set out on behalf of the Norwegian government on a voyage across about 16,100 km (about 10,000 mi) of the Arctic Ocean, exploring from Franz Josef Land in the east to the Greenland Sea in the west. She was unable to find any trace of Amundsen, but for her efforts the Norwegian government awarded Boyd the Chevalier Cross of the Order of Saint Olav. Beginning in 1931, Boyd undertook a series of nearly annual expeditions to the Arctic. That year she and an exploring party sailed to Greenland's northeastern coast, where they examined glacial formations and photographed Arctic plant and animal life. She earned recognition for her explorations of the little-known De Geer Glacier when an adjoining region was later named Louise Boyd Land. In 1933 Boyd led an expedition sponsored by the American Geographical Society. Her scientific team again studied the fjords and glaciers on Greenland's northeastern coast and, using a sonic device, measured the offshore ocean depths. In 1937, and again in 1938, Boyd continued her ocean-depth research in the Arctic seas northeast of Norway. These two expeditions helped determine that an undersea mountain ridge spans the ocean floor between Bear Island and Jan Mayen Island. The outbreak of World War II in 1939 halted Boyd's explorations until 1941, when she undertook an Arctic expedition sponsored by the United States government. She studied the effects of polar magnetic phenomena on radio communications and later served as an adviser on military strategy in the Arctic. In 1949 the U.S. Army awarded her a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition for this work. Boyd returned to the Arctic again in 1955 when, at the age of 68, she hired an airplane and became the first woman to fly over the North Pole. She spent her remaining years in San Francisco. Boyd wrote about her explorations in newspaper articles and in her books The Fjord Region of East Greenland (1935) and The Coast of Northeast Greenland (1948).

To: Neocon who wrote (1453)	11/12/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Which reminds me of an obvious contender: Amelia Earhart Earhart, Amelia (1898-1937), American aviator, noted for her flights across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and her attempt to fly around the world. She was born in Atchison, Kansas, and educated at Columbia University and Harvard Summer School. In 1928 she accepted the invitation of the American pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon to join them as a passenger on a transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to make the crossing by air. She described the flight in the book 20 Hrs. 40 Min. (1928); she later wrote The Fun of It (1931). In 1932 she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone, establishing a new record for the crossing: 13 hr 30 min. For this feat she was awarded honors by the American and French governments. In 1935 she became the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean, crossing from Hawaii to California. Later the same year she set a speed record by flying nonstop from Mexico City to New York City in 14 hr 19 min. In June 1937 she began a flight around the world, flying eastward from Miami, Florida, accompanied by Frederick J. Noonan, a navigator. Their plane disappeared on July 2, while en route from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island. An extensive search by planes and ships of the United States Navy failed to discover any trace of the lost flyers, and their fate remains a mystery. Shortly after Earhart's disappearance, her husband, the book publisher George Palmer Putnam, edited and published Last Flight (1937), a book consisting largely of her diary of the ill-fated journey, transmitted from the various stopping places on the way.

To: Neocon who wrote (1453)	11/12/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I was pleased with the inclusion of Chesterton but a little surprised. You know I love the Jolly Knight but I question how influential he's been. It seems his adversaries George Bernard Shaw (who he always bested in public debates) and HG Wells managed to carry the day. Belloc's response to Wells' "Outline of History" was never satisfactorily responded to but Shaw and Wells are remembered and Chesterton and Belloc are not, except for a happy few.