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Behind the turnaround is Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, Harvard’s unofficial safety czar. At the beginning of the assault wave, the University struggled to craft a coherent response. Safety responsibilities are decentralized among dozens of Harvard officials. But in this cramped subterranean setting, Kidd has pushed key decision-makers into close contact...
Another panelist, Dan Black, described himself as “anti-No Child Left Behind” because of its emphasis on testing and its damaging effects on the craft of teaching and student self-esteem. Opponents of the act have argued that it demands higher standards without providing the funding needed to improve genuine learning...
...Volker Roth, a Boeing engineer, "is basically its safety and robustness during the first 100 miles and the last 100 miles of any space trip." Such a comparatively simple vehicle could be ready relatively soon, but the loose time frame of the Bush plan doesn't call for the craft to fly before 2014. That decade-away projection puzzles Charles Allen, head of Boeing's Orbital Space Program. "By 2007 we could be doing major systems tests," he says. "I don't see any problem with that...
...Bush proposal's heavy reliance on the moon as a stopping point on the way to Mars. The President calls for NASA to establish a lunar base first, learn to live and work there, and then use that extraterrestrial space center as a launch facility where Mars craft shipped up from Earth in pieces could be assembled and relaunched...
Bush and his political adviser Karl Rove, who helped craft the plan, believe in the power of big ideas. And they know that if the big idea is an optimistic one--and what is a trip to Mars if not optimism in action?--so much the better, especially in a campaign that will inevitably focus on the worrying topic of the war on terrorism. "This is not a school-uniforms President," says a campaign adviser, referring to a famous election-year policy of Bill Clinton's. "He thinks big. He leads...