Word: capes
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...budget to be pork? No one else was looking. In Palin, America just may have a Vice President who knows how to exploit the national government's bureaucracy and lawmakers in favour of her constituents, and such a change, it seems to me, would be about time. Peter Nortje, CAPE TOWN...
...California Institute of Technology operated its little-known Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and extended an invitation there. They made the same offer up the coast at Moffett Field, Calif., where the military operated its Ames Research Center, and also gathered up the government's missile test range at Cape Canaveral, Fla. and the Huntsville Arsenal in Alabama...
...lean and efficient operation for what had the potential to become a very big agency. But there was a very expensive exception to the business plan. Once NASA actually began flying human beings in space, it would need a place from which to run those missions. Cape Canaveral was the sensible site; no reason not to operate your missions from the same place you launch them. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, however, didn?t see things that way. If federal space goodies were going to be handed out, he wanted his native Texas to get its share. And as de facto...
...just a question of how I would cobble the various disciplines together. 8. FM: “Aftertaste,” your senior thesis, has been screened at film festivals around the world. What inspired you to write a documentary about post-Apartheid farming in South Africa? CD: Near Cape Town there are a lot of wine farms. During my senior year there were a lot of farmers starting “empowerment projects.” Basically this meant that for the first time the workers could own parts of the vineyard and make profits from their wine being...
...Sasol continues to be well run and responsibly developed, and helps save South Africa from becoming another Zimbabwe-like wreck, I force myself to accept that "black domination" has replaced "white supremacy." And I envy Americans their choices. Politics is important: it's up to voters. Wendy Toerien, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...