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...AWARDED. To SpaceShipOne, a privately built rocket funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen; the $10 million ANSARI X PRIZE, created in 1996 by MIT graduate Peter Diamandis to make low-cost space travel accessible to the public; in Mojave, California. To win the prize, the rocket had to fly into space and return to earth twice in less than a week. According to SpaceShipOne's designer Burt Rutan, the prize covers less than half of Allen's original investment...
...surely enhances what is now Harvard,” said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes of Radcliffe’s legacy...
Directed by Peter Berg...
...those unfamiliar with elite high school football, the film is jarring to say the least. Though American society worships successful professional athletes, the cult following earned by these 17-year old high school seniors is, for the most part, less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to the Panthers’ trials in their daily lives—how they survive in the face of such intense scrutiny—than to their gridiron exploits to underscore that this isn’t just a game, but a profession...
...student director of the financial aid initiative, Peter M. Brown, said at first the plan was to focus on convincing low-income students to apply, but since the initiative’s announcement in February finding those low-income students has proven more difficult than expected...