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Last week in the Pioneer control room at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California, project manager Fred Wirth watched Pioneer's data, in the form of multicolored blocks of numbers flashing across a computer screen. To make the best use of the spacecraft's dwindling power, he...
"I think there is still a big appetite for national news," says Michael Gartner, former president of NBC News and now editor of the Ames, Iowa, Daily Tribune. "But there are far more outlets for it now. It used to be that the networks could say to me and you...
The major enemies of children today are missing fathers, illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol abuse, the collapse of authority and a popular culture that inspires antisocial and destructive behavior in children. The war we must wage for our children requires more than simply pouring money into programs like Head Start...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III then announced the recipients of the Ames Awards, presented to an outstanding man and woman of the senior class for community service as well as "leadership, self-reliance and character."
So Keillor favors reality, by which he means something other than the corporate world. Sure, the life he describes at the re-engineered Amalgamated Potato stinks, but (news flash, Garrison) bad smells are real. And what does he offer instead? The romantic notion that life in the wild where the...