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...secrecy surrounding Chinese astronauts may be due to the country's less-than-stellar space record so far. In the past the government announced test launches of Shenzhou spacecraft only after they returned, saving itself the embarrassment of having to explain failures. China's satellite-launch program suffered a string of disastrous explosions and aborted launches in the mid-1990s. Although all four unmanned Shenzhou craft have returned from orbit since the first test in 1999, not all were mission-accomplished. The Shenzhou II is widely believed to have suffered damage from a hard landing during a blizzard...
...colossal 180 candidates, the highest number in the council’s 21-year history—more than doubled last year’s paltry 91. And as entryway lobbies and House bulletin boards are covered in letter-sized campaign posters, a few theories have surfaced to explain the tremendous turnout...
...those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time, The Pythons Autobiography (Orion Books; 360 pages), serves up a hefty slab of nostalgia. Time is tougher on jokes than on melodies, but it's hard now to explain precisely why Monty Python's Flying Circus, which launched on Oct. 5, 1969 with a skit about sheep nesting in trees, should have so captivated viewers. There are precious few clues in the book, which is a hexagonal feat of memory, not self-analysis, though they rightly pay tribute to comic...
...Staff does not attempt to explain how the point system does not commit unconstitutional discrimination. Rather, it merely explains the system’s expediency. This reasoning is faulty, and belies the premise of law in our society that the Constitution does, in fact, trump an appealing, easy solution. The Staff’s position is analogous to arguing that the Sixth Amendment can be overlooked because a state does not have the resources to appoint public defenders for indigent defendants. Regarding affirmative action, an ideologically worthy goal, the point system is scary indeed...
With the exception of Epley and Ambady, most social scientists at Harvard specialize in cognitive social psychology, which some have said may explain why Harvard did not extend an offer to stay...