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...wall, you discover a tiny mechanical creation of Robert J. Wood, an assistant professor of electrical engineering. Two weeks ago, Wood was awarded a grant from the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program for work on the aero-elasticity of flapping wings of micro aero vehicles (MAVs). The Air Force program, which provides around $100,000 each year for a three-year period, hopes to foster creative basic research in science and engineering and enhance early career development, according to Spencer T. Wu, the program’s manager...
...Among other things, the flap underscores the difficulty of gleaning the truth from communist- era archives. Police files similar to the one in which this document was found exist in most post-communist countries in eastern Europe. And such celebrated opponents of communism as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Polish dissident journalist Adam Michnik have argued strenuously against their contents being divulged to the public, for fear that the information will be misinterpreted, used for political gain, or to carry out personal vendettas. Skeptics also point out that the communist-era police frequently forged documents to embarrass state enemies...
...political correctness run amok. "Have a sense of humor," spokeswoman Nicole Wallace told me. For his part, Obama never accused McCain (or Biden, for that matter) of playing the race card. He wrote eloquently about race in his books, and he spoke eloquently about race during the Wright flap, but he's avoided the subject ever since the McCain campaign accused him of playing the race card, after he suggested that Republicans would try to remind voters that he doesn't look like the Presidents on U.S. currency. I've already reported Obama's negative response to a New Hampshire...
...Ironically, the flap over the nuclear deal may give Singh and the Congress Party a chance to address some of those concerns by pursuing much needed economic reforms. Singh's allies on the left have generally allowed the Congress Party to set the agenda, but they opposed certain reforms that threatened their labor-union base, including a plan to liberalize the banking sector and changes to India's socialistic labor laws. Now that left-leaning lawmakers have bolted from the coalition, Singh, an economist, could find it easier to push reforms through - although his allies say they'll proceed with...
...meantime, Crist, whose endorsement helped McCain easily win last January's Florida primary, is selling the Arizona Senator to Floridians as "a man who cares deeply about the environment" despite the drilling flap. Earlier this month, for example, he took McCain on an airboat ride through the Everglades after environmentalists raised the issue of McCain having voted against a federal water bill last year that included $2 billion for Everglades restoration. (McCain says he objected to other pork provisions in the measure, not the Everglades funding...