Word: neos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...astronomers believe that an asteroid several miles across crashed onto land then, kicking up enough dust to block out sunlight worldwide for years, leading to reduced agriculture and mass starvation. The same could happen to humans today should a “near-earth object,” or NEO, of that size crash into, say, Massachusetts...
...former chairman of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, in a phone interview. What we need, in his opinion, is “a little money, a little attention, and a little organized structure”—that is, a structure for a response to an earthbound NEO. A search for objects in the 140-meter to one-kilometer range would require more people and more telescopes since the objects would be too small for amateurs’ more modest telescopes to routinely spot. But the cost would be only about $1 billion over 20 years, which...
...spotting the buggers. NASA needs to reshuffle its cash to fund the larger project, or Congress—which two years ago asked NASA to come up with a comprehensive search-and-destroy plan—needs to boost the space agency’s budget accordingly. And NEO-spotting is still a long-term project. We can catalog all the dangerous asteroids in the next few decades, but comets are more troublesome, since they come shooting from the dark reaches of the outer solar system. We’d have substantially less warning—a few years, maybe...
...Jennifer Blumberg fell at No. 2, and No. 5 Lydia Williams lost a heartbreaker 9-5 7-9 9-5 9-1. Princeton’s No. 8 Carly Grabowski sealed the championship for the Tigers with a 9-6, 9-3, 9-2 win over Harvard freshman Charlene Neo, to build an insurmountable 5-1 lead...
...attributed to demographic trends. Simply put, as populations get older, they tend to display higher variation in income. Most of the rest of the increase in inequality is a result of increasing returns on education and skill. In other words, to raise wages, activists would be better off with neo-Luddite machine sabotage than with unions, because structural factors in the economy—globalization and technological change—are responsible for unequal wages...