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...only one so far and does not plan to hold any more major events this semester. The CEB—which was created last year after the Undergraduate Council decided to cede responsibility for campus-wide social events to an independent body—has not spent a large portion of its funding so far, according to Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06. “We’ve been pretty conservative in spending,” he said, adding that the board has spent “less than half?...
...first encouraging sign that NASA means business is the sensible hardware it's envisioning for the lunar portion of the moon-Mars program. The new vehicles are based on proven--if souped up--Apollo technology, with an orbiter that looks a lot like the old Apollo command module and a lander that resembles the familiar spindly lunar module. The new lander could carry three or more crew members down to the surface and drive them around the lunar landscape, doubling as a sort of extraterrestrial pickup truck. Crews would live for up to 180 days at a time in trailer...
...computer lab in which to explore the ICA’s collection and online activities. The computers are arranged sloping downwards, mimicking both the theater and the grandstand below. The front wall of the room is one large plate of glass, framing a constantly changing and eternally hypnotic portion of the water and eliminating the external context of a horizon.It is important to remember that this is a small to medium sized museum. New York’s Museum of Modern Art is ten times larger in terms of square footage; the ICA has barely 18,000 square feet...
...Kushnell, co-founder of YSN.com, a Web site for young entrepreneurs, to invite DeLuca to Harvard. Kushnell said she was concerned about a perceived lack of understanding on the part of students about their options in the business world both now and after college. “A good portion of what you learn in academia is theoretical,” Kushnell said. “What young people are craving are real-world examples.... Events like this bring the outside world to school.” “I actually started my business before I entered college...
...violence. Forty percent of Iraq's population of 26 million now lives in the "highly insecure" provinces of Baghdad, Anbar, Diyala and Salah ad Din. Bush blames the increasing violence on al-Qaeda, but the report notes that that the terror group is now responsible for only a "small portion" of it. The sectarian violence between Shi'a and Sunnis in and around Baghdad "causes the largest number of civilian casualties. Iraq is in the grip of a deadly cycle...