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...certain to discover places and things of immediate value to the new nation. Third, the Lewis and Clark venture cost next to nothing by today's standards. In 1989 NASA estimated that a people-to-Mars program would cost $400 billion, which inflates to $600 billion today. The Hoover Dam cost $700 million in today's money, meaning that sending people to Mars might cost as much as building about 800 new Hoover Dams. A Mars mission may be the single most expensive nonwartime undertaking in U.S. history...
...smooth exterior is a shrewd politician who just might play rough. Last week, Abdullah told reporters that two costly infrastructure projects awarded to businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary, one of the favorite industrialists of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, might be renegotiated. In the case of the Bakun dam, a huge hydroelectric project on Borneo, Abdullah said he was "not sure" whether the government would resort to privatization. (Syed Mokhtar's GIIG Capital signed an agreement last August to buy 60% of the dam operator from the government.) Just 10 days before Mahathir resigned in October, a consortium...
Johnson’s most important triumph, according to Caro, was his passage of “the first civil rights bill in 82 years…which broke a twenty year dam in the Senate against liberal legislation...
...track from his new album Freeman (the sunny, horn-driven “We Feel It”) most of the concert is a mix of older tracks. Among these is the memorable “Columbus,” which declares “Christopher Columbus is a dam-blasted liar / He never discover Jamaica...
...Thaw CANADA Scientists from the University of Alaska and Quebec's Laval University announced that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest in the Arctic - has broken up. The researchers said this was proof the process of climate change is accelerating in the Arctic. The ice shelf used to dam the mouth of the Disraeli Fjord, creating a large freshwater lake that has now drained away, wiping out a rare microbial ecosystem...