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...billion industry in the U.S., of which only a small portion is attributable to NASA or military spending. The commercial share includes spending on satellite television and radio and GPS devices as well as five "spaceports" already licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration in California, Florida, Virginia and Kodiak Island and others under development around the country like the one in New Mexico...
...intense collaborative process with artists, architects, designers and musicians. His most ambitious collaboration, A Journey That Wasn't, combines documentary-style film footage of his 2005 voyage to Antarctica, an operatic translation of the trip set in New York City's Central Park, a sculpture of an island discovered on the venture, a musical score based on that island's topography - and an animatronic penguin. All this is Huyghe's attempt to produce a dark, cold, strange "equivalent" of his Antarctic "elsewhere." The result is very different from your basic travel documentary, which, as Huyghe points out, is usually shot...
...EXECUTED. Fabianus Tibo, 60, Marinus Riwu, 48, and Dominggus da Silva, 42, Christian militants convicted of plotting the massacre of at least 70 Muslims on Sulawesi during sectarian violence on the Indonesian island in 1998-2000; in Poso, Indonesia. Rights groups criticized the trio's 2001 conviction, claiming that Muslims had received lighter sentences for similar crimes, while the Vatican issued a plea for clemency last month. Christians rioted across eastern Indonesia following the executions...
...Tufts University, saw the Crimson sail to a 36-point win in a 21-team field featuring most of the familiar teams. In A-division, captain Clay Johnson skippered along with senior crew Kristen Lynch, guiding Harvard to a second-place finish behind only the University of Rhode Island. The margin of victory for URI was just three points, and the close finish meant that a relatively strong performance from B-division junior skipper Kyle Kovacs and junior crew Elyse Dolbec give the Crimson the top spot. That’s exactly what happened, as Harvard tied Boston University...
Harvard will not have a long wait before getting its next Ivy League chance against longtime rival Yale on Saturday, after playing an away game against Rhode Island tomorrow...