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...reinvent the technological wheel with the dangerous and temperamental space shuttle, NASA is returning to what it does best. The hardware and crew for the lunar base will be sent into orbit atop comparatively reliable, disposable boosters, based on the sturdy and powerful engines of the shuttle and long-extinct Saturn boosters. The lunar orbital vehicles will be souped-up Apollo command modules and the landers will be similarly updated lunar excursion modules - the lovable, buglike LEMs. Astronauts on Apollos 15, 16 and 17 already showed that lunar rovers could be safely driven across the moon's surface, providing another...
...practical," reads the Tata code of honor, which sets groupwide standards of conduct. Subir Gokarn, chief economist at ratings agency Crisil, says Tata read the runes of change and largely avoided the rash of business failures that followed reform: "He survived the bloodbath. Those who made no changes became extinct...
...result, we are left with two options. If we wish to maintain a moral society, we must in effect drive ourselves extinct to avoid the death of innocent embryos, or we must dismiss the idea that conception is the point at which a life legally begins. One imagines that the second course of action is easier to accept, or at least to pass through Congress...
...chuckled at Murdoch's claim that Fox News chief Roger Ailes "has been insistent on equal time for all sides." This is the same Ailes who served as media strategist for three Republican Presidents and once produced Rush Limbaugh's now extinct television show. This is the same fair-minded producer whose "journalists," such as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, frequently tell their guests to shut up, and turn off the microphones when they hear viewpoints opposed to their own. George Peterman New Haven, Connecticut...
...National Committee. Diana Clary Allen, Texas, U.S. I chuckled at Murdoch's claim that Fox News chief Roger Ailes "has been insistent on equal time for all sides." This is the same Ailes who served as media strategist for three Republican Presidents and once produced Rush Limbaugh's now extinct television show. This is the same fair-minded producer whose "journalists," such as Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, frequently tell their guests to shut up, and turn off the microphones when they hear viewpoints opposed to their own. George Peterman New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Red Planet Close...