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The 13-ft.-long, 2-ton spacecraft is not designed for a landing, but rather will settle into a low lunar orbit just 30 miles (48 km) above the surface, or about half the altitude at which the Apollos flew. The ship will be fairly stuffed with scientific instruments, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Shoots for the Moon, This Time to Stay | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

Just as important for choosing where to homestead is knowing the local weather - or at least the local temperature. Nobody pretends that the moon will be a thermally comfortable place to live, but few people realize just how punishing its climate extremes are - a torch-like 250 degrees Fahrenheit (120...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Shoots for the Moon, This Time to Stay | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

Harvard's schools have signed on to a new federal matching program to support financial aid for veterans, but the University's units differed widely in their financial commitment to the initiative—reflecting a tradition of decentralized decision-making at Harvard that current leaders have often sought to...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Schools Vary Widely In Level of Support for Veterans Aid | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

Amsterdam was a hotbed of conceptual art in the 1960s and '70s. In its damp studios and fetid cafés, artists from dozens of countries came together in the belief that the ideas behind a work were more important than the work itself. (See Time.com/Travel for city guides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conceptual Art's Dutch Treat | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

Foezul Ali is explaining the concept of shura - the Arabic word for collective decision-making by consultation - to a small class of adolescent girls at a madrassa run by the Aziziye Mosque in Stoke Newington, north London. Consultation, he explains, requires taking into consideration the views of all members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Extremism with Education | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

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