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...Colbert, NASA was an easy target for a prank. It’s hard to imagine a government agency more past its prime. Nearly every major manned program undergone by NASA since the early 1970s has run over budget and been delayed. Now, with the shuttle program ending, NASA will likely have to rely on Russian rockets soon (as early as 2011) just to get American astronauts to the space station...
...fact, it’s likely that international cooperation to extend humanity’s reach past Low Earth Orbit would help bring about peace here at home, especially given that the major space players would probably be our erstwhile enemies China and Russia. The International Space Station shows that international cooperation is possible, at least on a small scale. Rather than try to leapfrog so far past China that they’ll never catch us, we should instead co-opt them into our plans for planetary exploration and let them help cover costs. It?...
...fellow undergraduates. The dean of education there informed us that the college is planning to reform its curriculum—a relic of British colonial rule—to bring it more in line with the American system. Rather than starting off their university years with a set major and pre-professional plans, students will now be able to dabble in the glorious uncertainty of a liberal arts education...
...world circuit of mega events," says John R. Gold, professor of social sciences and law at Britain's Oxford Brookes University, and co-author of Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2012. He adds, "Even to be on the short-list is a major achievement - it puts you right up there with the world's major cities." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...
...timing of the launch, just hours before a major address on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, was either fortuitous or terrible for Obama, at once highlighting the issue of proliferation and showing just how hard it will be to tame an unruly world. In his speech before a crowd of about 20,000 at the Prague Castle compound Obama opted to use the launch as a teaching moment. "Just this morning, we were reminded again of why we need a new and more rigorous approach to address this threat," he said. "This provocation underscores the need for action...