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...smoothly as the J.P.L. systems run, the true test of the lab's business model comes when something goes wrong. Every time the lab pushes the launch button, billions of dollars, dozens of careers and decades of planning can be on the line. J.P.L. not only accepts the likelihood of the occasional costly flop but also expects it. Such a stomach for setbacks is a legacy of J.P.L.'s first director, William Pickering, a Caltech alumnus who learned his trade setting off rockets in the dry riverbed that is all J.P.L. once was. Dozens of those rockets sometimes blew themselves...
...350Z or feature the delicate bone structure of a Mazda Miata. With a starting price around $20,000 the Solstice is the cheapest roadster on the market (a hair under the new Mazda MX-5). GM plans to produce just 16,000 to 18,000 units for the 2006 model year and dealers are already asking several thousand dollars over sticker...
According to Yi, Yuan’s new project is based on a related model previously indicating that a mutant protein was involved in age-dependent hearing loss...
...course, in addition to centralizing resources already available, the Women’s Center can offer new services that were impossible before, due to lack of adequate space. Advocates suggest that a Director for the Center be hired in a model similar to that of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, to oversee women’s experience at Harvard, plan programming for the Center, and represent the interests of female students to the administration—all services that Radcliffe provided as little as 10 years ago, but which subsequently disappeared. Parties, art exhibits, and conferences...
...Provided you have an iPod Photo or any newer color-screen model, you can run a slideshow out the S-Video output and onto a TV or projector you bring along. It only works with the iPod in the left-hand dock, however-it can't blend photos from two iPods, the way it blends their sounds...