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...Danny, it’s me—Mom. Are you really serious about this whole Senator thing? I always thought you wanted to be a racecar driver or an astronaut. Or, perhaps based on playing to your strengths, a professional bed-wetter...
After four years of immersion in a liberal arts school like Harvard, many students find themselves interested in career paths that simply don’t exist in their home countries. Mohamed wants to be an astronaut. “My interests are not compatible with home,” she says. “They have bigger things to worry about before starting a space program, like six million people starving. The list doesn?...
...spent many years cheering for the Crimson, she had become a very successful rower at St. Paul’s, and was being recruited by many national universities. In particular, she was intrigued by the Naval Academy. “I had always wanted to be an astronaut,” Simmons says. “I was tempted by the idea of being able to fly planes and being a woman in the military...
...pauses in the journey to mourn the heroes we have lost. And we do not lament alone, for this was an international tragedy. The hauntingly horrid vision of the Columbia’s archangelic descent was seen around the world. Aboard the ship was Israel’s first astronaut, who had become a national hero in his home country before he ever stepped foot on the Space Shuttle. The pain is also felt deeply here at Harvard, for a certain kinship is shared amongst those—be they students at desks or astronauts in space?...
...cover look quite conventional--boring even, as they come only in white. But each is sewn with a layer of tiny capsules, called thermacules, that absorb, store and release heat as needed to regulate temperature. A version of this "phase change" material, originally developed for NASA for use in astronaut gloves, has appeared in ski boots, ski helmets and other cold-weather gear. INVENTOR Outlast Technologies AVAILABILITY Now, $20 to $100 TO LEARN MORE www.outlast.com