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...gave up your show on CNN Headline News to launch a new talk show on Fox News in January. How will it be different? I liked being over at CNN and being the odd man. You didn't expect me over there. I also think they made me a better broadcaster because, believe me, I was the most well-researched show on CNN. They never let me get away with anything. At the time, it was like, Come on guys, cut me some slack. But in retrospect, they made me better. I know what I know because they forced...
NASA has moved with uncharacteristic nimbleness in the last five years and is already cutting metal on the new machines in the hope of having crews in Earth orbit by 2015 and on the moon by 2020. Schedules have slipped some - the original plan was to launch the orbital missions in 2014 - and costs have swollen, though so far not dramatically. (See the Top 50 space moments since Sputnik...
...sold on the plans for the new moon program. What she and others are said to be considering is to scrap the plans for the Ares 1 - which is designed exclusively to carry humans - and replace it with Atlas V and Delta IV boosters, which are currently used to launch satellites but could be redesigned, or "requalified," for humans. Griffin hates that idea, and firmly believes the Atlas and Delta are unsafe for people. One well-placed NASA source who asked not to be named reports that as much as Griffin wants to keep his job, he'll walk away...
...thesis she “became all the more determined to make this idea a reality.”Nineteen years later, Kopp’s dream has not only been realized, but has gained recognition and respect. This year, BusinessWeek named TFA one of the best places to launch a career, Kopp was named one of 2008’s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, and Education Week wrote about two TFA alumni who advised the Obama campaign.Last year Teach for America received a record number of 24,700 applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected...
...Harvard production directed by Sean P. Bala ’09 will run through Dec. 7 in the Adams House Pool Theatre. The musical adds intrigue to what might seem like just another high-intensity, mind-boggling (or, to some, simply boring) game by using its namesake as a launch-pad to explore much deeper issues of identity in the Cold War. Over the years, the musical has evolved from a typical rock opera into the increasingly play-like format used by Bala. According to the director, this production of “Chess” features a more fully...