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After heavy investigation, I came up with one lead. Many of The Crimson’s boards ask their newly elected members to accomplish optional good-natured “missions?? as part of the fun of elections day, which often include scavenger hunts, love poems to editors, and song-and-dance routines. The news board, in what most would consider fairly harmless fun, asked some of their members to get Hallmark greeting cards signed by someone in the registrar’s office...
Without regular servicing missions??one of which was scheduled for 2004 until NASA’s shuttle fleet was grounded in the wake of Columbia disaster—the Hubble will literally fall out of orbit. Instead of reinstating the cancelled servicing mission, however, NASA officials and the Bush administration have decided to pull the plug on the orbiting telescope. The administration’s recently released 2006 budget sets aside only $93 million for Hubble (out of a total NASA budget of $2.5 billion), $75 million of which will be spent to ensure the telescope safely crashes...
Three hours into the new year, we called it a night. I thought I knew what the officer would say—my elementary school sat right next to the 13th Precinct and our classrooms had been visited several times by local cops on community service missions??but I asked just for the hell of it. “What are you supposed to do in a situation like this? Just give them what they want...
Such is the secret of Bosnia. I am growing extremely fond of my home for a month, Sarajevo. There are millions of interesting, positive things to say about it. But do I really want hoards of tourists—for pleasure or on do-good missions??arriving? While in general I heartily support international travel and certainly greater tourism in Bosnia would be helpful to the economy, I cannot help but want to protect this place from the brash self-centered voyeurism that tourists of all nationalities tend to carry...
LeMoyne acknowledged these successes, but noted that Klein and Kouchner worked in “the Rolls-Royce of U.N. missions??white people are dying in Europe...