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...that I'm hoping I get a chance to do. When my father was on SkyLab, it had a big central chamber with this ring of lockers all the way around the perimeter; it was just big enough that you could run around and create enough centrifugal force to hold you against the lockers and have a little circular jogging track like in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm hoping to find a cross-section that is sufficient for me to pull that off on the ISS. Most of the areas are too small, but there may be a couple...
...sleep-away camp on the Charles doesn’t necessarily mean that the gawkish days have ended. I remember young Grant Noble’s first Harvard Carnival, baked beans and ranger cookies sliding around his white plastic plate as he tried to manage his cutlery, hold a hotdog, and escape from a girl with blonde dreadlocks who said she wanted to be his best friend. In fact, run-ins like this have unquestionably been happening at Harvard since 1636, when the first hobbledehoy freshmen putzed around the Yard, chewing on hardtack and trying to make friends with...
...deal that really must get done. Last Thursday the great American credit panic of 2008 was on the verge of halting the country's financial circulatory system. Anyone with money to lend was hoarding it and big institutions were starting a run on the money market funds that hold the hard-earned savings of millions of Americans and support $1.7 trillion in short-term borrowings U.S. businesses rely on to meet payrolls and stay afloat...
...spent six years in jail - be able to bring down a ruling coalition that has governed Malaysia since independence? Or will Najib - the current deputy premier whose reputation has been tainted by the murder trial of his former advisor - take the helm and sustain the National Front's hold on power? Already, Anwar's power play has been dismissed as a mere rhetorical flourish by the ruling coalition. Why else, they ask, did the opposition leader miss his self-imposed deadline of Sept. 16 to unseat the National Front? Abdullah himself sniffed that his rival's confidence of a political...
...Malays National Organization (UMNO), the dominant party in the National Front. Traditionally, Malaysia's Prime Minister also serves as UMNO's head. If Abdullah forgoes his candidacy, then that decision will likely signal an early power shift to Najib. As the days count down, all Malaysians can do is hold their breath for a little while longer...