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...officer observed a cement pillar that was destroyed by a construction boom lift at 202 Longwood Ave. at the Harvard Medical School campus. The officer reported no injuries...
...boosters are mostly traditional throwaways, and the best parts of the shuttle will be cannibalized to build them. A mammoth new heavy-lift cargo booster will be assembled out of two of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters and up to six of its liquid fuel main engines. This would be used to put an unmanned lunar lander and a small upper stage rocket into Earth orbit. A smaller booster, made of a single solid rocket and a single liquid-fueled engine, would then launch the four-person crew in the command module. The astronauts would dock with the lunar...
...their 40-min. moon ride were small ones. The curators of the lunar vehicles wanted to keep the machines free of dust, so the interior of the module stays clean--far different from the gunpowder-scented, soil-covered surfaces the astronauts describe. Hanks also had the actor astronauts lift their gold-colored visors more often than their real-life counterparts did, revealing the clear faceplates--and faces--underneath. "We wanted to remind audiences that those were human beings up there," he says...
Fiske's corporate face-lift fits into a grand plan hatched by Leslie Wexner, the iconic founder and CEO of the Limited Brands, who built the company into a $10 billion retailer largely on the premise that people are willing to pay more for perceived quality. In the 1960s, when middle America bought clothes at department stores, Wexner started a boutiquey chain of shops called the Limited. But now that competitors have flooded the specialty apparel scene and mall fashion has gone commodity, Wexner is changing his game, looking for growth from personal care at Bath & Body Works, from lingerie...
...happy as your saddest child," says Kightley. "If you look at the statistics, the saddest kids in New Zealand are the brown ones. They are at the wrong end of too many indicators. That tells me we need to improve things from the bottom up. Doesn't that lift everyone?" Despite strong job growth, unemployment rates for Maori and Pacific Islanders are way above national averages; one-third of Maori children live in families that rely on welfare. Clark says education and acquiring skills will get them out of poverty. "Labour's always got an Achilles heel around issues such...