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...there's anything more powerful than one good idea it's two bad ones. In the long and often glittery history of American space exploration, far and away the two worst ideas have been the International Space Station (ISS) and the snakebit fleet of space shuttles. For more than a generation, these two ill-considered programs have been money pits for NASA, gobbling funds and returning nowhere near enough in return. Yesterday, they took another big bite out of the space agency, when officials announced $3 billion worth of NASA budget cuts over the next five years, all of them...
...would not do it. But Bush at first seemed serious, promising to complete the station by 2010, mothball the shuttles after that and redirect the saved resources to the new manned initiatives, all without sacrificing such scientifically priceless-and fiscally prudent-programs as new space telescopes and the growing fleet of interplanetary probes flown mostly by the NASA-affiliated Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). When NASA's new, no-nonsense administrator, Michael Griffin, took over last April, he echoed that. Not ?one thin dime? would be cannibalized from the hard-science missions to pay for the manned ones, he promised...
...million Amount spent by the Kenyan government on a fleet of luxury cars for its staff between January 2003 and September 2004, according to a report by Transparency International Kenya and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights 25,000 Number of Kenyan children for whom the same investment would have provided eight years of schooling...
...biking yesterday around the Mall in 60-degree-weather, I realized that there might be some validity to this global warming idea. From small efforts to build ethanol and biodiesel vehicles to completely altering America’s fleet of 200 million automobiles to run on hydrogen, curbing global warming will take dramatic action, not just dramatic rhetoric. A first step is a dollar tax on gasoline, an approach that has been derided by corporate America. Tonight, I can no longer allow the destruction of our world to go unchecked in the interest of ExxonMobil’s $36 billion...
After 39 minutes and 56 seconds of containment and uncharacteristically poor shooting, Brown guard Sarah Hayes finally found the hole she had sought all night. And once the hole opened, there was no closing it. The athletic Hayes, fleet of foot and with the highest vertical on the court, juked Harvard guard Laura Robinson on an inbounds play and sprinted upcourt just as her teammate threw a perfect baseball pass down the left sideline. A few dribbles later, Hayes put that vertical leap to good use, jumping over three frantic, out-of-place Harvard defenders and burying a 20-footer...