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Lawrence M. Levine, the associate dean for information technology and chief information officer, will be leaving at the end of September to become the associate vice chancellor and chief information officer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, effective November...
Combine manufacturer rebates, dealer incentives and cash-for-clunkers rebates of up to $4,500 (which end in November), and there are some huge deals out there. The $16,000 list price on a 2009 Nissan Versa at Boulder Nissan in Colorado can be whittled to under $10,000. A buyer could drive off with a new $18,000 Pontiac Vibe from the Bill Rapp Super Store in Syracuse, N.Y., for $10,000 if he or she does the numbers right. And Lakewood Fordland in suburban Denver will conceivably trim up to $17,000 off a loaded 2009 Ford F250...
...point where used cars are so expensive that it may be worth buying a new car for a few thousand dollars more, and the market will be back to the way it used to be," says Ed Olsen, the sales manager at Boulder Nissan. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Disciplining wrongdoers with arduous physical activity stretches as least as far back as the ancient Greeks - and it's always really sucked. Homer's Odyssey recalls the plight of Sisyphus, the Corinthian King consigned to nudging a boulder up a hill for all eternity; according to the gods' twisted decree, when he neared the top of the hill, the rock would come tumbling down. Rehabilitation in 19th century England took a page from the Greeks' prescription for soul-crushing drudgery: inmates would be forced to trek endlessly on treadmills, pass their days turning purposeless cranks for thousands of revolutions...
...aboard the ship, however - for lay lunarphiles at least - will be the camera. Even the best reconnaissance photography before the Apollo visits missed things, which is why Apollo 11's landing almost came to grief when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin found themselves piloting their lander over an unexpected boulder field just seconds before touchdown. That's less likely to happen this time, thanks to a camera that can visualize objects as small as a few feet across. What's more, since the LRO will be in a polar orbit instead of an equatorial one - or, vertical rather than horizontal...