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...acquisition is emblematic of a Middle Eastern merchant state on the rise, one that aspires to be much more than an amusement park for jet-setters. Run since 1995 by a press-shy crown prince, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who became emir this year (Sheik Mo, to finance types), Dubai has established a network of holding companies, funds and corporations with more than $15 billion in overseas investments and a domestic goal of turning Dubai into a hub for everything from financial services to biotechnology. Call it Dubai Inc., a conglomerate with Sheik...
...right, I was sleep deprived. So what? Still confident that there was nothing wrong with my ability to function at full capacity, I flew to San Francisco, where NASA's Ames Research Center keeps a full-size virtual-motion simulator of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. It's the next best thing to really flying. After a few hours of training and several takeoffs and landings, I had mastered the 747--or so I thought...
...officer took a report of an unattended navy blue Emporio Armani coat stolen from the Spangler Center. The coat was valued at $800. 9:21 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to Gund Hall to take a report of two stolen laser jet lenses and two laser jet mirrors valued at $500. March 1: 2:26 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to Griswold Hall to a report of two individuals sleeping in the area. The officers arrived and reported that the two individuals were Harvard affiliates and had authorization to be there...
When President Clinton went to Pakistan in 2000, the security situation was so bad that he did a last-minute switch of airplanes. As he left India to go to Pakistan, Clinton walked toward an official U.S. jet - and then got into an unmarked aircraft that would be less easily identified by terrorists. And that was before 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, not to mention multiple attempts on the life of the country?s president, Pervez Musharraf...
...promising to complete the station by 2010, mothball the shuttles after that and redirect the saved resources to the new manned initiatives, all without sacrificing such scientifically priceless-and fiscally prudent-programs as new space telescopes and the growing fleet of interplanetary probes flown mostly by the NASA-affiliated Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). When NASA's new, no-nonsense administrator, Michael Griffin, took over last April, he echoed that. Not ?one thin dime? would be cannibalized from the hard-science missions to pay for the manned ones, he promised. Now, it appears, there will be a lot of lost dimes...