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...Griffin - who is an engineer - nor to be sold on the plans for the new moon program. What she and others are said to be considering is to scrap the plans for the Ares 1 - which is designed exclusively to carry humans - and replace it with Atlas V and Delta IV boosters, which are currently used to launch satellites but could be redesigned, or "requalified," for humans. Griffin hates that idea, and firmly believes the Atlas and Delta are unsafe for people. One well-placed NASA source who asked not to be named reports that as much as Griffin wants...
Meanwhile, the ailing Atlas of congressional Democrats, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, has a different priority in mind for an Obama Administration. Even as he battles brain cancer, Kennedy has been trying to lay the groundwork for a breakthrough on universal health insurance. In his rousing, up-from-the-sickbed convention speech, Kennedy called health-care reform "the cause of my life," and many congressional Democrats share that zeal. Obama will have to decide whether, in the midst of a recession, Washington can take on two reforms of such historic proportions simultaneously. If, as the early betting predicts, he says...
...capable of many things, but being ordinary isn't one of them. Jolie seems to know that her startling, cartoonish, monumental beauty is a handicap here, so she goes bigger in her movements. A stream of tears stains her Kabuki makeup; her sighs come with shrugs worthy of Atlas. Underplaying would have helped. So would the casting of an actress who's less glamorous and, I have to say, more human - someone like Naomi Watts...
...Harvard team has been primarily concerned with the construction and operation of the ATLAS detector, a cylindrical component of the collider engineered to gather data about the particles that emerge when the machine smashes protons together at energies of 14 trillion electron volts, recreating conditions that may have prevailed only a trillionth of a second after the universe’s inception...
...Working closely with scientists from area institutions MIT, Boston University, Tufts, and Brandeis, Harvard saw construction of several key ATLAS parts—some as large as 72 feet across—at the spacious Oxford Street site of what, prior to its closing in 2002, was the University’s own particle accelerator. Finished pieces were then mailed overseas for assembly...