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...will teach at least one live lesson from orbit, and up to two more if the mission is extended from 11 to 14 days, as it might be. She is also carrying a cargo of 10 million cinnamon basil seeds (a figure she playfully rounds up to "a kazillion,"), which will be distributed to schoolchildren to grow post-flight, so that they can observe any anomalies that might be attributable to the stint in weightlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is This Teacher in Space? | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...structure to work' when he knew the only solution was to break the rules. But he never said, 'Do it,'" says a former employee. Pretending it was all a game helped too. A videotape of a 1997 party surfaced this month, showing Skilling joking that Enron could make "a kazillion dollars" through an exotic new accounting technique. It was close to true, and not so funny. --By Daren Fonda, with reporting by Deborah Fowler/Houston and Sean Scully/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enron: Picking Over the Carcass | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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