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...You?re going up to the ISS for 10 days, and then you land, if all goes well. What do you do after that? I am a devout explorer of the reality in which we live, so this is by no means my first exploration - but it?s a big one. It?s the biggest. But I still have on my list visiting disappearing indigenous populations around the globe, which I have yet to do, and Southeast Asia is still an area to me which is largely unexplored, and I still have a lot of things in the deep oceans...
...These 213 low-income units currently stand next to Harvard’s soccer field, squarely in the middle of its new Allston campus. Last year Harvard secretly acquired the Charlesview land in exchange for land and financing to rebuild the complex a quarter-mile down Western Ave. Though the deal was made with the Charlesview’s board, without tenant representation to speak of, and with no notice to or consultation with the surrounding community, it could do some real good: The present Charlesview structures are dilapidated, and its enclave-like design isolates it from the rest...
...very pragmatic people, they are hard workers, and they understood we are hard workers,” she said. “The government would never have given us a chance, except that the ranchers said, ‘I have the right to have that fence on my land.’” Christo and Jeanne-Claude encountered opposition in many of their projects, including “The Gates,” which they first proposed in 1979 but did not come to fruition for over two decades. “The process [of obtaining permission...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...
...Last fall China launched the unmanned Chang'e lunar probe. The next steps for the lunar program are a soft landing with a moon rover slated for 2012 and launching another rover and returning with samples in 2017. While there have been declarations by some space officials of when China could put a man on the moon - Ouyang Ziyuan, the chief scientist of China's Chang'e lunar probe, once said 2017; the deputy head of the Shenzhou program said 2020 - there is no official timetable. The U.S., the only nation to land astronauts on the moon, says it hopes...