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Amidst complaining how “Tierney seems to long for the day when American history courses line up in the catalog in neatly marked packages,” Ulrich also related an anecdote about students visiting from Beijing University. They had a solid command of hard facts, but did not have a sturdy understanding of how those historical events came to pass. “The Chinese students,” Prof. Ulrich avers, “wanted to know how ordinary people got their ideas about liberty...
...Back in Afghanistan, Greene's comrades say the attack won't stop the program of village visits that began late last month when Canada took command of the 6,000-strong multinational brigade in the country's volatile south. "We are not going to change things just because of one unusual incident," says Canadian Forces spokeswoman Captain Julie Roberge in Kandahar. A military investigation of the Shinkay attack has so far turned up no evidence of a planned ambush. All the same, the episode has rattled Canadian troops. Says Roberge: "As a soldier you expect gunfire...
...easy to forget the moon. The images of NASA's celebrated lunar landings are lasered onto the national retina, and perhaps no two things are better remembered than the sister ships that made the trips: the cone-shaped Apollo command module and the leggy lunar lander. If NASA has its way, those kinds of spacecraft will be flying again soon. They will not, however, be your daddy's moonships...
...ships will follow the old rules. The centerpiece of the stack will be the prosaically named Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), a descendant of the Apollo command module but for a few significant differences. For one thing, it will be bigger, able to carry four astronauts comfortably and six a bit more snugly--twice the load of the three-man Apollos...