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...success of the $445 million flight test, the significance of the 327-ft. rocket is uncertain. A report delivered to the White House on Oct. 22 from the Human Space Flights Plan Committee said the Constellation program's goals were underfunded. The committee, headed by Norman Augustine, retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., concluded that NASA needs another $3 billion a year to pursue meaningful human space exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Facing a $1.4 trillion federal deficit, even NASA's most ardent supporters in Congress, who represent some of the 60,000 jobs associated with the agency...
...Unlike Iraq, with its broad and flat highways, Afghanistan has relatively few roads, many of which pass through narrow mountain passes and over relatively weak bridges. "It can be pretty tough to maneuver," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told troops in South Korea last week. "I've talked to troops that have gotten stuck in places that they didn't expect to get stuck in." (See a video of the soldier's experience in Afghanistan and Iraq...
JULIAN BOND, chairman of the NAACP, during an Oct. 11 speech in which he urged African Americans to support the right of gays to wed. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that two-thirds of black Protestants oppose same-sex marriage...
...list touches upon professions that run the gamut from politics to choreography. This year’s list includes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, former Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin, activist Eboo Patel, and MIT College President Susan Hockfield...
According to selected for both her research and administrative experience, according to G. Marshall Moriarty ’64, chairman of the Brigham’s Board of Trustees. “We have a lot of high-powered researchers,” Moriarty said. “We need someone who can deal with the faculty members as an equal...