Word: design
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...Cruises in Sydney's harbor has been running a hybrid Solar Sailor ship since 2000. In Berlin, the mayor christened a solar ferry in July, and Shanghai will have its own Solar Sailor ferry by the start of the 2010 World Expo. Founded in 1999, the company's innovative designs won the Australian Design Award of the Year, and Solar Sailor became the first Australian company recognized by the prestigious Tech Museum Awards. The inspiration for the solar sails, says Robert Dane, CEO of Solar Sailor, was ancient arthropods. "Insects first evolved wings as solar collectors," Dane says...
...upper stages separated on schedule, approximately two minutes into the flight. And early indications are that the more than 700 onboard sensors did their job by streaming back to Earth a treasure trove of data to validate Ares computer models, information to be used in tweaking the final design. Ares I-X got off the ground just 30 minutes before the launch window closed for the second day in a row. (See pictures of celestial bodies...
That ground was covered by earlier Administrations, from which sprang the inherently dangerous design of the space shuttle in the 1970s. Budget cuts and compromises led to the critical mistake of designing the shuttle to fly horizontally but launch vertically, leaving the ship helpless and without any abort option right after launch if something went wrong...
...still, every fall before The Game, the Harvard College Fund Undergraduate Committee holds its "Beat Yale" shirt design contest just in case the point hasn't quite been made. The eight finalist nominees have been chosen and circulated via email, and FlyBy has chosen a few of its favorites to highlight...
Initially, the public option was a relatively small feature of the health-reform design, meant primarily to assure that there would be some competition for private insurers. As President Obama noted in his September speech before Congress, no more than 5% of Americans - largely those who are now uninsured - are expected to sign up for it. But the public option has assumed an outsized political significance, thanks to the fact that it has become a flash point between the left and the right. That is in part because both see it as a potential precursor to a government-run single...