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...plans had not begun fretting about the Martian winds the ships would encounter and argued for additional thrusters to counteract them. The thrusters were added, and the design change made all the difference. More recently, the lab was planning the less publicized Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)--a twin-satellite pas de deux designed to measure Earth's gravitational field and its effect on ocean currents. A critical step was eliminating any wobble between the ships. J.P.L. staff members had been working with engineers at Stanford University on a thruster that could nudge a spacecraft with boiled-off helium...
...modern Hitchcockian thriller with style and grace, “Flightplan” is set in a not-so-distant future ruled by streamlined aesthetic minimalism. The film begins in a stark, frozen Berlin where Kyle Pratt (Foster), an emotionally drained aeronautical engineer, boards a luxurious double-decker airplane. Accompanied by her traumatized young daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), Kyle is traveling to New York to return the body of her husband, who died unexpectedly under suspicious circumstances...
...Fall From Grace By Alex Perry...
...Hagan’s quarterback rating isn’t perfect, but his grace under pressure was hard to ignore. With Harvard down 32-25 late in the fourth quarter, O’Hagan engineered the game-tying drive downfield...
...Admiral Thad Allen, who argued it was premature in light of the city's still ravaged and polluted state. Nagin in turn rebuked Allen for acting like "the federal mayor of New Orleans." ("We've since buried the hatchet," Nagin insists.) But, writes New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Grace, the fracas arose chiefly because "Nagin didn't line up the support he needed before opening his mouth, and he didn't take care of the specifics...