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The technical challenge is finding materials that can withstand the pressure at 35,000 feet. It's almost easier to build a spaceship to go into space than to build a vessel that can withstand the pressures at 35,000 feet. But we think we can do it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virgin Founder Richard Branson | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

After a worldwide search for a candidate to fill Harvard’s new professorship in Chinese social history, former Associate Professor Michael Szonyi was selected to assume the post on July 1, 2009. Szonyi is a social historian who, in addition to reading historical texts, seeks to challenge historical...

Author: By Ellie Reilly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chinese Historian Tenured | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

As a New Mexico native, I know most Western voters are not the types conjured up to stymie reform. Many cowboys have a libertarian streak, but above all they are pragmatic. They have no time for winded speeches and empty pandering, which is mostly what they’re getting...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: It’s High Noon in America | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Under this framework, we can more fully understand his legislative record. Many have quoted Kennedy’s famous proclamation at the 1980 Democratic National Convention: “The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” But...

Author: By Jonathan S. Gould | Title: Lessons from the Liberal Lion | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Ridge, who now works at his own consulting firm, Ridge Global, writes in his book, with co-author Lary Bloom, that he finally decided to pen a political memoir because "I thought my fellow citizens and public officials needed to know about what happened, what ought to have happened, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ridge: Second Thoughts, but Not Second-Guessing | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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