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...four decades it has been affiliated with NASA, the lab has dispatched probes to seven of the planets and dozens of their moons and has tossed in the sun, our own moon and a comet for good measure. "We do interplanetary," says Pete Theisinger, a deputy director of Mars exploration. "We're not the only people who can do it, but we're the only ones who have done it for 40 years...
...question for both science types and business types is, Why? What is it about J.P.L. that has made it the little space engine that could? The lab is undeniably a science center first. But it's a business of sorts too, facing all the challenges that confront any going concern. Industry could learn something from six straightforward rules J.P.L. has always taken care to follow, rules that may have done more than anything else to make it such a thriving operation...
Thursday, Dec. 1—Saturday, Dec. 3. The Alchemist. Two conmen and a prostitute run a fake alchemy lab out of a temporarily empty house, duping a colorful cast of self-righteous lunatics in this comedy. 2:30 p.m. (Saturday) and 7:30 p.m. Loeb Ex. Free. Tickets available only at the Loeb Drama Center Box Office, 64 Brattle...
...Gasolina,” [by Abaya]. It was the first time I’d heard [Reggaetone]. It was in my lab – sleep deprivation research. We’d listen to it and bond while number-crunching, with the subjects hooked up to electrodes downstairs...
...already clear that the blame can be well distributed, from the White House to emergency-management officials at federal, state and local levels, all the way down to the cops who abandoned their posts in New Orleans. "The system broke," says Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards Research Lab at the University of South Carolina. "A system that cannot airlift water and food to a community that's desperate for it is a system that is broken...