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What may have started as a simple House rivalry has escalated into a frenzy of finger-pointing and name-calling, following the theft of Cabot House’s Green Cup early Tuesday morning. The trophy, which is awarded by the Resource Efficiency Program (REP) every Earth Day to the House that has most improved energy conservation, recycling habits, and “eco-projects,” was stolen from its perch in the Cabot dining hall by two disguised males at 1:30 a.m., according to eyewitness Adriana L. Benedict...
...Saturday's flight may be Rhonda's first venture into space, but it won't be her last. As part of the package purchased by her husband, this fall her ashes will be inserted into a module attached to a satellite and will orbit earth at least one time before vaporizing upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. She may no longer be alive to savor the experience, but Rhonda Archbold is finally exploring the final frontier...
...Dick Archbold, a Stockton lawyer, will be joined by Rhonda's son, Dan, in the early morning crowd watching the launch, fingers crossed for a successful mission. Last fall, the first SpaceLoft flight ended moments after it began when the telephone-pole-sized rocket spiraled erratically before plummeting to earth. After reviewing the flight data, the solution was obvious, says Eric Knight, co-founder of UP Aerospace, the Connecticut firm that built the rocket. It needed a fourth tail fin. Many computer simulations confirmed his diagnosis and Saturday's flight went off without a hitch...
...popcorn, as well as whether the radiation of space will affect the magnetic strip on a bank-issued gift card. A group of 12- and 13-year-olds from Joseph Haydnschool in Groningen, the Netherlands, want to see if mineral oil and water, liquids that don't mix in earth's atmosphere, will combine in the weightlessness of space. The Dutch teachers planned to be at the launch, along with some of the 800 American student scientists...
...Sending his wife into space as a posthumous celebration of her life on earth was an easy decision for Archbold, who paid $1,400 to Celestis, a company that pioneered memorial space flights in the 1990s. She had been a Star Trek fan since the first series on television and dragged her husband to many Trekkie conventions, where they had often seen "Scotty...