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...Teacher in Space program was a creature of NASA's arguably naive, 1980s belief that, with a fleet of sturdy shuttles, space flight could become a wonderfully routine thing. Former Utah Senator Jake Garn snagged himself a seat on one flight - never mind that he spent much of the mission so violently space sick that NASA wags informally added a whole new category, labeled "Garn," to the sliding scale used for diagnosing nausea in orbit. Then Congressman (now Senator) Bill Nelson of Florida spent six days in space aboard the shuttle Columbia in January of 1986, the same month Challenger...
...outside Anchorage, Alaska. Jacob Fritz had graduated from West Point in 2005. Built like a football lineman, Fritz had grown up a Nebraskan farm boy in the town of Verdon, where his graduating class in high school had only 11 students. At West Point, Fritz earned the nickname "Jolly Jake" for his perpetual smile. The soldiers from Fort Richardson grew to like Fritz too. He had the kind of résumé you see among the young élite of the Army's officer corps. But early on, the enlisted men considered Fritz one of their...
...drafted, while Princeton saw three players selected. Brown and Dartmouth each had a single player chosen.Though he’s the first Crimson player ever selected in the MLL collegiate draft, two other Harvard players have made their way to MLL rosters. Doug Kocis ’05 and Jake McKenna ’04 were selected in the league’s supplemental draft, Kocis to Long Island in 2006 and McKenna to San Francisco this year.As the Crimson’s first-ever MLL draftee, however, Flood is eager to take advantage of the opportunity...
...dependent on a respirator and needed a feeding tube and round-the-clock nursing care (he threw up 18 to 20 times a day), all of which kept him going in and out of the hospital. Putman thought she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "When Jake was born, the world as I knew it disappeared," says Putman. "Margaret knows the patient's rights, comes up with a plan, tells you what you need to do and somehow makes it happen," Putman says. "But most important, she gives you hope." Jacob, now 14, is able to participate fully...
...Brown threw a hell of a game,†fellow senior Jake Levine said. “It’s a great...