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...maybe we can do two handfuls." The city of Buffalo, for instance, offered $66 million in various incentives to get Bass Pro to crawl into the shell of a downtown arena called the Aud and build a gigantic store. A hotel and museum are also in the plans. The mission is nothing less than reviving that Rust Belt city on Lake Erie. It's an astonishingly tall order for an overgrown tackle shop to revive what had once been a manufacturing center. But at a time when there are few manufacturers for cities to pursue, the bass business looks pretty...
...clear from the outset that the White House wasn't happy when Plame's husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson, blew the whistle on a weak piece of the Administration's prewar claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), after he had been sent by the CIA on a mission to investigate WMD. A central mystery of the case is what crime Fitzgerald aims to prosecute: the leaks or a possible cover-up involving perjury or obstruction of justice...
That's no surprise. Team X manager Robert Oberto describes the several-day process during which an idea is discussed as "organized chaos," with all the dimensions of the mission being considered at once. That speeds things up by letting the engineers working on, say, the propulsion system know what the engineers working on the camera system are thinking--a good thing, since cameras add weight, affecting thrust. Of the 70 or so missions that come before Team X in a year, only one or two are ever recommended to NASA. The group technique assures that those two missions...
...game when things are still calm," says J.P.L. director Charles Elachi. "We put it in a drawer, and I tell the team, 'I'm not going to let this thing launch until you verify that each item has been done.'" Sometimes a single rule can save a mission...
...Museum seems to have a particular appeal for baby boomers, perhaps because they have the historical perspective with which to appreciate the subject. According to Peter Earnest, founding executive director, 75% of the museum's visitors are 50 and older. Boomers like Donaldson can live out their Mission: Impossible fantasies by selecting an undercover persona--complete with false name, age and other traits--upon entering the museum. Before they exit, an interactive display tests them on how well they remember the details of their new identity...