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...disfigure our astronauts. Prolonged habitation in zero-gravity environments might permanently cost astronauts a quarter of their skeleton due to osteoporosis. While many Americans view China’s space program as a threat, there is hardly enough political will necessary to fund such an ambitious proposal on a rapid timescale. The Orion capsules that will replace the space shuttle have already been delayed to 2015. It’s only a matter of time before waning interest spurs Congress to push the timeline back even further. Although President Obama has voiced support for the moon mission...
...court. His contributions have rejuvenated a Harvard team currently sitting atop the EIVA Hay Division standings and on the verge of making the playoffs for the first time in over five years. And while the upperclassmen deserve just as much credit for the program’s rapid resurgence, Jones has brought renewed enthusiasm to the team, as well as a skill set that has caught the attention of his teammates and coach.“I knew he’d come out of one of the top club programs in the country,” Crimson coach Brian...
...overshadowed his part in reinventing the company after its decades-long decline, said several of Wagoner’s Harvard Business School classmates. Wagoner, who graduated from the Business School in 1977, stepped down on Monday at the request of the Obama administration, which has sought to force more rapid changes within the three beleaguered American automobile manufacturers that have received assistance from the administration’s multi-billion dollar bailout fund. GM lost $30.9 billion last year, and its share price has fallen to as low as $1.27 from a high of $35 three years ago. The company...
...That year, he joined GM as a senior analyst in the company's New York-based Treasurer's Office. After a series of rapid promotions through the company's ranks, he became a GMAC vice president in 1992 and was appointed a GM vice president and general manager of steering company Delphi Saginaw...
Meanwhile, the mountainous terrain and high altitudes of Afghanistan have led the Army to increasingly emphasize rapid delivery of anything that can lighten a soldier's load. As a result, the U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning, Ga., is experimenting with a 4,000-lb, six-wheeled semiautonomous, supply-carrying robot vehicle called the Squad Mission Support System (SMSS), which will likely head to the mountains of Afghanistan for testing sometime next year...