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MOSCOW: Russia's leaders ought to pray that things on Earth unfold as they do in space: Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov announced Friday that Russia had found the funds, via "certain extra-budgetary sources," to pay for its continued participation in the international space station project. (Russia has to cough up $240 million this year alone.) Translation: Nemtsov may be hinting at a cosmic bailout. "They?ve been talking to European countries about short-term financing in order to get the thing into space," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Somebody will probably step into the breach with...
Quack medicine comes in two varieties: "irrelevant but harmless" and "toxic." The Administration's plan to wire American classrooms for Internet service is toxic quackery. Four-fifths of U.S. schools have Internet access already; instead of wiring the rest, we ought to lay down a startling new educational directive: First learn reading and writing, history and arithmetic. Then play Frisbee, go fishing or surf the Internet. Lessons first, fun second...
Guess KERRY WOOD was ready for the major leagues after all. The 20-year-old Chicago Cubs pitcher tied the record held by the venerable Roger Clemens when he struck out 20 Houston Astros last week. (Perhaps he ought not go home to Texas this off-season.) Of course, Clemens did it twice, 10 years apart, but this was only the fifth game of Wood's major league career. "It was just one of those days when everything you throw is crossing the plate," Wood said. "It just felt like I was playing catch." If he can keep this...
...only interesting research about America, but also an important form of teaching...a new set of relationships that departments ought to have with religious groups in their own neighborhoods for pedagogical purposes," Eck says...
Riley stresses that the University itself haslittle say in deciding whether crimes ought to beprosecuted...