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Life on Mars - it is an earthling's fantasy as old as Eldorado or the Holy Grail. And yet mankind may be on the brink of actually proving whether there is, or ever has been, life on the Red Planet. This spring three spacecraft are scheduled to take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space...
...more miles when necessary. The holy grail of frequent-flyer rewards is the free ticket for accumulating 25,000 points, or miles. But it's tough to book one with only two to 20 seats on each flight available for rewards. By contrast, for travelers willing to use 40,000 miles, all seats on each flight are available. Many people balk at using so many miles, but it's not a bad deal. Consider this: the accepted value of a single airline mile is about 2˘ (figured on the basis of a 25,000 miles per $500 coach ticket...
...tenured professorship at Harvard is the holy grail of American higher education. Aspiring academics spend years publishing or perishing, always trying to distinguish themselves enough to be considered “the leading scholar in the field” and therefore qualify for an appointment to the University’s tenured Faculty. And like the search for the grail, the path to tenure at Harvard is often a mystery. Partly as a result of this inscrutable tenure process, there have been several controversial tenure cases over the last few years where faculty have said they were treated unfairly...
...NACAC needs them a hell of a lot more than they need NACAC,” he said. “If it’s a blinking match, I’ll tell you who will blink first. [NACAC membership] is not considered to be the Holy Grail. There’s talk that a lot of colleges are going to pull...
Rather than snuffing the dispute, Johnson inflamed it, threatening the holy grail of corporate perks--membership at Augusta. Says Burk, taking the next shot: "We'd like to look at the corporations the members represent and how memberships can be reconciled with corporate policies against discrimination and marketing practices to women. And I would also be interested as to who is paying for the memberships...