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...many views their page has gotten—both overall and from individual radar-tagged individuals.As a beta project, the current version on the Web is not complete, but it does allow Tanjeloff and Galkowski to receive feedback and ideas for improvement.Tanjeloff says Check My Radar is set to launch at three sites in upcoming weeks—Harvard, Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, and the University of Central Florida.“We have a good connection to those schools and we know a lot of people that go there,” says Tanjeloff.He says the Web site hopes...
Last Sunday, members of the South Asian Association (SAA) elected Pia P. Dandiya ’09 and Dhruv Maheshwari ’09 as co-presidents for the upcoming academic year. Dandiya and Maheshwari said yesterday that they plan to launch a number of new initiatives, in addition to continuing the efforts of outgoing co-presidents Mayuri N. Shah ’08 and Rohan Kekre ’08. Shah and Kekre have spent their tenure implementing a lecture series and starting a summer fellows program. According to Dandiya, one of SAA’s main goals next...
...three years ago Nigeria became only the second country in sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa) to launch its own satellite. NigeriaSat-1 took off from Russia but is controlled by Nigerian scientists and engineers from a ground station in Abuja. The satellite, which was built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey...
That's only the start of Boroffice's ambitious plans. A communications satellite designed to give even remote villagers access to the Internet is scheduled to be launched next year, and a second observation satellite is planned for 2009. To make the space program self-sustaining, Nigeria wants to sell excess bandwidth to other nations; a United Arab Emirates-- based company reportedly has already signed a $250 million deal. "I'm very passionate about space technology, says Boroffice, 57, a former biology professor. "I see what it has done in India, and I want to do the same in Nigeria...
...didn't think so. But having bitten the hand that feeds him enough times on stage, and on two CDs (Never Mind the Pollocks-Here's the Histrionics and Museum Fatigue), Kesminas, 40, has become the art world's unofficial court jester. Early next month, the band will help launch the Australian artists at the Venice Biennale, and on June 15, they'll play before Dutch royalty at the opening of a survey of sculpture from Australia and the Netherlands in the Hague. "I liked the witty comments and a sort of devilish charm and provocative fun of not taking...