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...party basis, according to the latest Newspoll. On the poll's question of who is better to lead the country, Rudd is ahead of Howard 48% to 36%. Rudd's job description, as he told reporters in Sydney before embarking on a trans-Pacific flight last Wednesday, is Alternative Prime Minister of Australia. As he fronts this week's ALP national conference for the first time as leader, Rudd will be playing to his party's supreme policy-making body. The former diplomat and high-level technocrat is not a creature of Labor's factions or union base, which makes...
...encouraging. “Some people ask me ‘Why are you doing this, don’t you feel like this is a waste of a Harvard education?’” Coates says. The Engineering Sciences concentrator will enter Flight school next year, which will extend his commitment to 10 years. Coates sees a military career as a serious investment. “I feel that 10 years from now I have a pretty good platform to jump off of. It may be too late for medical school, but as a military officer with...
...allows animators to do what they do best—draw—without having to constantly return to the computer screen, usually a given for CG artists. With SANDDE, the creative process involves the animator drawing the desired image in space with a wand fashioned from an old flight simulator controller. The wand disrupts a projected magnetic field, which can be read by a machine and translated into an image. The drawing is then projected in such a way that, with the aid of the glasses, a 3-D image is visible. Using a supporting technology known as GEPPETTO...
...Several hours later, he awoke to the sound of gunfire and bombs going off as government troops raided his village. Dau, one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, spoke to an audience of about 30 in Harvard Hall last night, telling stories of his flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War, a conflict between Sudan’s northern Arab government and non-Arab forces in the country?...
...pride of Brazil's export industry, directors realized that the company faced a shortage of aerospace engineers because the advanced training they needed wasn't available in Brazil. In 2000 the company set up an 18-month-long postgraduate course to train its engineers in aerodynamics and flight mechanics. So far, nearly 800 people have taken the course. "We create from inside, and we are now delivering engineers with a specialist aerospace background," says Peter Clignett, a Dutch lecturer in Embraer's program. "The better the engineers, the better the finished product...