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...infrastructure fund which will finance land acquisition, construction and other costs associated with the expansion in Allston. The tax, begun in early 2001 and slated to last 25 years, should produce at least $3 billion in revenue—or potentially far more if the endowment continues its climb...
Nonetheless, true to the nature of this story, this movie’s path was still an uphill climb. The ambitious expedition that Fuller proposed with this movie found itself seriously truncated by Warner Bros. Studios, the distribution outlet to whom he—according to legend—presented his four-and-a-half hour finished product...
...Bulldogs current run—highlighted by a pair of losses at Alaska-Anchorage and a home loss to Brown—would have torpedoed the efforts of a school looking to climb into the rankings, but because UMD was so highly touted to start the year, the same pundits who exaggerated its potential at the start are now cushioning its fall...
...harder to stomach. Over the next decade, financial barriers will keep an estimated 4 million qualified high school grads from receiving four-year college degrees and will stop 2 million of them from attending college altogether. These numbers may be even higher if already exorbitant tuition fees continue to climb...
SpaceShipOne's lift-off is inventive too. The vehicle is carried aloft tethered to the belly of a futuristic cargo plane dubbed White Knight, which takes off effortlessly and then climbs in circles of ever increasing altitude for an hour. Just when you think White Knight has disappeared from sight, SpaceShipOne separates and ignites its engine, which is fueled by nitrous oxide and rubber, and a plume of white smoke shoots straight up into the sky. Unlike the computer-driven shuttle, SpaceShipOne is controlled by an old-fashioned mechanical stick and rudder. That makes the altitude climb hair-raising...