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Apparently, firing a popgun requires a lot more rhetoric than loosing a thunderclap. The unanimous court in Brown needed just 14 calmly crafted pages to deliver its ruling. The Roberts Court devoted 178 pages, in five separate opinions, to its narrow resolution of the smaller questions. And what did the Justices say in all those pages? Little, if anything, new. As the Rehnquist Court held in 2003, schools may not use simple racial classifications as the determining factor for admitting students. Administrators in Seattle and Jefferson County were advised to find more nuanced ways to achieve diversity...
Remember the supernova, that great burst of sky violence that was supposed to be the finest pyrotechnics show the heavens could offer? Forget it. NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and several ground-based optical telescopes have just witnessed a cosmic blast that makes the supernova look like a popgun...
Maybe. But one man's vision is another man's fever dream, and to X Prize engineers struggling to achieve a popgun suborbital, Aldrin's ideas may sound loopy. Undaunted, Aldrin and ShareSpace have come up with a plan to raise the capital they need. For $10 or so, contestants could enter a sweepstakes qualifying them to win a range of space-related prizes, including a ride aboard a zero-gravity training plane or a trip in a MiG-25 to the edge of space. Any money left over would be used for the group's advocacy...
...POPGUN RETALIATION...
...area on Friday, but none released gas. They injured about a dozen people but killed no one. Four elderly Israelis and a three-year-old girl, however, either suffocated inside gas masks that had been improperly adjusted or died of heart attacks. Despite the fatalities, that amounted to a popgun attack in contrast to the kind of assault Israel and the U.S. had feared Saddam would mount...