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...Sweet Spot for a Launch...
NASA's shuttle Atlantis was scheduled for a mission to the International Space Station on Dec. 9, but a faulty fuel gauge caused the launch to be postponed until January at the earliest. If the gauge had been fixed quickly, could the delay have been avoided? No. Blame orbital mechanics...
...WAIT UNTIL JANUARY? The shuttle impedes the station's movement when attached. At certain points in the year, this makes it difficult to capture solar energy or maintain temperature, factors NASA considers for launch timing...
...Fang ’10 currently funds laddertoheaven.com, a site where users can share good deeds, with the money he earns from three jobs. This spring, a new undergraduate business competition may provide him and other innovators on campus with some much-needed cash. Yesterday marked the official launch of “I^3,” the Imagine Invent Impact Harvard College Innovation Challenge. The competition will award $80,000 in cash grants and provide up to $40,000 in services for students to pursue innovative ventures. Michael Segal ’08, co-president of the Harvard...
...since Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy in the 1960s had any Democrat of national stature addressed the subject with the focus that Edwards gave it. He helped start a poverty center at the University of North Carolina, wrote a book about it and, when the time came to launch his next presidential campaign, chose hurricane-ravaged New Orleans as the place to do so. There are differences in style and substance this time around. In his newer, more populist incarnation, Edwards 2.0 has hammered away not only at President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the special...