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...Among the better known industry pioneers is British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson who is moving the SpaceShipOne concept forward in a company called Virgin Galactic with plans to manufacture enough similar crafts to begin commercial operations from New Mexico in a few years. And after picking up the pieces from Monday's launch, UP Aerospace has scheduled nine more flights over the next year...
...other defendant in the case and the individual suspected of actually striking the victim—was also present yesterday in court, where he was scheduled to face a jury on charges of assault and battery with intent to intimidate. But his trial was postponed and is scheduled to begin today at 9:15 a.m., according to Middlesex D.A. spokeswoman Kathryn Norton. The victim of the alleged attack, Galo Garcia III ’05, says that as he walked on Bow Street to a Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) party in Adams House April...
First it was “The Harvard Tour,” then the “The Unofficial Hahvahd Tour.” Now, it is “Unofficial Tours, Inc. Presents Harvard,” and starting this Friday, it will begin operation as an official student-run business, directly competing with the Crimson Key Society (CKS) in the Harvard tourist market. This may mark the end of months of uncertainty over the group’s status. About two weeks after Jordan C. Jones ’07 and Daniel A. Schofield-Bodt...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and embraced by Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Stern report rejected the conventional argument that combatting climate change is bad news for the global economy. On the contrary, Stern determined that inaction would bring far worse economic consequences. If developed nations do not begin to cut greenhouse-gas emissions soon, the economic cost of global warming could amount to 20% of world gdp. A key part of the report calls on corporations around the world to cut back on their CO2 output. Now, as those companies try to address the bottom-line implications...
...words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis. Paul Lai Longwood, Florida...