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...There really isn't any important science under way on the station now, but that's because this first crew arrived in November with little life support, no way to cook their food and a toilet that wouldn't flush. They've been working overtime just to make the place livable and science has not been a priority. NASA hopes to have 30 or so experiments under way a year from now and about 120 researchers are waiting their turn. The space agency is only now starting to consider proposals that will find their way onto the station...
...high-altitude, wooded terrain for three days without food or sleep. They are not allowed to slow their pace except for a few naps. At the end the hungry and thirsty survivors are given a goat, a knife and a matchbox. That's their reward, and they have to cook and eat it in warlike conditions...
...weeks ago, I would have told you the most annoying cliche currently littering the language was this one: things happen for a reason. But it turns out they do. Next to my own mother, Grace Costanza Nuzzo Lopez, the best Italian cook in the world is Maurizio's mother Concetta. Two or three mornings a week, this 70-year-old nonna makes a batch of meatballs at home, and one of her brood shuttles them into the restaurant as if transporting gold bullion...
...professional, as Hunter Thompson used to say, and at least there's no shortage of future castoffs. Keith, the master chef who can only cook when there's porcini mushrooms involved and who's trying to pass himself off as a do-rag-wearing stud who can carry "big logs and stuff." Alicia, who may be able to wash the Kucha Tribe's clothes on her stomach but can't even make bitchiness entertaining. Nick, who doesn't have a discernible personality, and Tina, who's sweet and earnest but can't keep her grub down or my eyelids...
Timothy E. Cook, Dickinson Professor of Political Science at Williams College, will teach "Media Strategies and Governance" and "The Politics of Sexual Diversity: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Politics in the U.S. and Beyond." Cook was the visiting Lombard Professor of the Shorenstein Center...