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...still unclear for future protests, SJSF representatives said they are committed to continuing the sleep-outs this spring. In their push for the state legislature’s passage of the clean energy bill, SJSF members have planned a final sleep-out in Boston Common the night before Earth Day in April...
...together. By this she meant that we tend toward things that have a label, that are officially stamped as worthwhile or at least excusable by the powers that be, that fit nicely onto our resumes and succinctly into sentences explaining what exactly we have done with our time on earth. She complained, for example, that no one would waste his or her time having a lengthy intellectual debate unless it was for a debate team or a class; that no one would go on a day trip or organize a dinner with friends unless it was as a retreat...
...Juraj Farkas and Shichun Huang, research associates at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the jobs preserved by the stimulus funds are their...
While scientists and politicians debate the complexities of global warming, skiers and boarders have simpler concerns about the earth's weather patterns - namely where the best snow will fall. With low-altitude resorts being denied loans by banks and statistical projections suggesting that winter sports below 2,000 m will become a luxury of the past, skiing in Alaska's Chugach Range, a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, makes more than good sense. It may soon be a necessity...
...addition to the private rocket game is Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), founded by Elon Musk, better known as the man who created PayPal. SpaceX has impressed and indeed charmed NASA, and not without reason. Its Falcon 1 rocket has been launched five times; the last two successfully reached earth orbit and the last one lofted a commercial payload. What's more, the operation - with 800 employees working principally in Los Angeles and central Texas - has something of the young, hyper-caffeinated energy of the old NASA. The space agency has already inked a deal for 15 Falcon flights...