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Gregg Easterbrook's critique of NASA, "The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped," challenges us to come up with a new and improved game plan that takes into account today's financial and technological realities [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 10]. The manned space-flight program is a costly publicity stunt and a shameless boondoggle at a time when the U.S. government is struggling to cope with urgent public needs. Many will insist on sympathetic but unthinking cheerleading for the space program, but we have to come up with a leaner, fitter and more successful plan. JUSTIN WHITTINGTON Washington...
...their own account, they weren’t. Confronted with feminist speculation that the phallus symbolized the power of masculinity, one of the creators responded simply: “Smart kids overanalyze things.” The same creator called the sculpture a “junior high prank...
...wait either. Financial analysts like Leme also worry that Meirelles, despite the rate hikes, isn't taking the perennial Brazilian threat of inflation seriously enough. But Meirelles argues that "we're not in recession, growth should be above 2% this year and we've lowered the current account deficit from 4.6% to 1.7% of GDP. We can handle the shocks." At the Davos Forum in January, Meirelles, a dancing enthusiast, slipped on the ice and broke his ankle. He can't samba this week - but if that's the only setback the government has suffered so far, Lula might...
...Attacks like these help account for a $25 million bounty the U.S. has placed on the head of Hizballah's Imad Mugniyeh, who is listed among America's 22 most wanted terrorists and is believed to be hiding out in Lebanon. "Hizballah may be the 'A team' of terrorists, and maybe al-Qaeda is actually the 'B team.' And they're on the list and their time will come," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said last September. "They have a blood debt to us,... and we're not going to forget it." Added an old counter-terrorism hand: "They...
While Dean Lewis’ goal of raising the academic requirements for first-years is laudable, the faculty would do better to institute a policy that takes into account the individual needs of those first-years who do not meet upperclass standards...