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...orbit - this time for a final servicing visit to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope - and once again the world is sweating out reports of damage to the spacecraft's thermal tiles caused by debris shed from the external fuel tank during liftoff on Monday. It was just that kind of mishap that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew back in 2003, allowing superheated gases to penetrate the ship during re-entry and causing it to disintegrate. That was the second shuttle to be lost in flight, after the explosion of Challenger in 1986. The hope...
...research team, based at the University of Exeter, also had a group of kids (this time, 47 boys ages 8 to 10) wear ActiGraphs. The data revealed that very few of the kids - fewer than 15% - sustained any burst of moderate-to-vigorous exercise lasting even five minutes, the kind you would get playing a soccer game in a P.E. class, for instance. And yet those kids were no healthier (as measured by waist size, aerobic fitness and microvascular function) than the kids who moved around the way boys normally do - running, jumping and throwing balls in very short bursts...
...sided” Monday when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that three JV men’s sports—baseball, basketball, and ice hockey—would be cut with the intent of transforming the teams into club programs next year. “This was kind of out of nowhere,” said Matthew S. Coe-Odess ’12, a member of the JV baseball team. “Our captain told us that no one had contacted us.” Nicholas P. Manzo ’10, a three-year veteran...
With the "siege" lifted against Arab-Americans, do you still want to continue with this kind of comedy...
...provide, rather than how good it is. If a botched surgery lands you back in the hospital, for instance, that means more profit for the health-care industry. "They are often penalized if they provide more-efficient care, if they reduce readmission rates," Orszag says, adding that changing that kind of perverse incentive will be a major focus of health-care reform...