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...effort to reach out to today’s students, NASA has allowed undergraduates to fly along on the KC-135 microgravity research airplane, otherwise known as the “Vomit Comet.” (Weightlessness is notorious for inducing vomiting.) The students enter a competitive process to design experiments that need to be done in a weightless environment. The program is meant to drum up interest for the agency’s research among young people born after the space shuttle started flying in the early 1980s. NASA also announced this September the design it has chosen...
...Enter attack ads. The main party line attacks are well represented by the attack ads in this year’s major races. Take, for example, the typical Republican ad. In Georgia, Republican candidate for Senate Saxby Chambliss ran ads flashing pictures of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein before snapshots of incumbent Sen. Max Cleland to demonstrate how Cleland hasn’t been supportive enough of the Bush administration’s national security policy. It would be hard for most to understand how attacking Cleland, who is a well-respected war hero who lost both legs...
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...these reasons and more, we were disappointed to see politics enter Wellstone’s memorial service last Tuesday night. It began as a somber gathering, with heartfelt speeches from personal friends remembering the senator, his family and the other people who died in the plane crash. The organizers intentionally kept the focus on Wellstone as a person rather than as a politician. But unfortunately, the service ultimately degenerated into partisan rhetoric; the mourners cheered Democrats and booed Republicans who had come to pay their respects to one of the Senate’s most dedicated public servants...
Arnold Clayton, who oversees international students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, says Question 2 could hurt students who enter the high school with very little previous education...