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"We wanted to build the new museum bigger and better, but the first goal was to remind young people of our glorious history, history that is being forgotten," says Alexander Laveikin, a deputy director of the museum and one of the first cosmonauts to have lived aboard the Mir space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Space Museum Help Russia Get Its Glory Back? | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

But two great hurdles stand in the way of Russia's realizing its space dreams: a collapsing public-education system and a brain drain that for decades has been siphoning off the country's highly trained engineers as they move to better-paying jobs in the West. It is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Space Museum Help Russia Get Its Glory Back? | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

Others believe the problem lies in the upbringing of children born after the fall of the Soviet Union. "Students today are more interested in money and dancing," says Yuri Bogomolov, 79, a former scientist at a Soviet-era aerospace lab. "We have a lot of patriotism, but the U.S. has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Space Museum Help Russia Get Its Glory Back? | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

Dara said that she had always been interested in Operation Smile, a children’s charity treating dedicated to treating facial deformities.

Author: By Manning Ding and Jessie J. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Models Work Runways, Classrooms | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

Ibn Batuta was certainly a most amazing person. The full account of his travels across an immense geography from Tangier to the Crimea, from Byzantium to Delhi and Calicut and the Maldives, perhaps to China, but also to East and West Africa, fill many engrossing volumes. He has provided an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

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