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...Among the projects on the block to pay for the $3 billion cut is the NuSTAR satellite, which would have used x-ray detection to find black holes, galactic nuclei and supernovae; the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which, as its name suggests, would hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars; and a welter of small craft known as the Explorers-discount ships designed mostly by university groups and launched in cooperation with NASA. Narrowly focused and cheap to fly, they have in the past paid big scientific dividends on very little investment...
...African-American residents, who look long and hard at any sign that the city may forbid them to return. The city has been eager to discourage piecemeal redevelopment, in which a handful of residents here and there try to re-establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring certain neighborhoods off limits, the angry reaction of black residents and politicians got him to back down. For now, his Bring New Orleans Back Commission (BNOB) has been content to go on supervising a process in which residents in heavily damaged...
...hackers, never mind determined terrorists. Worse still, small improvements are often oversold as giant steps forward, lowering the guard of average citizens as they carry on their daily routine with an unwarranted sense of confidence. For instance, while the flying public is busy shedding shoes and bags at X-ray check-in points, the tons of air freight being loaded into the belly of most commercial airliners continues to fly the American skies virtually uninspected...
...seems that bio-science is one of the industries that Boston wants to compete in and it seems like a terrific advantage that we have somebody with deep pockets and the intellectual resources to do it,” said Harvard-Allston Task Force chair Ray Mellone. “It captured the imagination a bit.”The 17-member Task Force, composed of Allston residents appointed by Menino, is charged with reviewing Harvard’s expansion plans as they are presented to the City. Before the University can proceed with construction, it must submit an Institutional...
...DIED. RAY BARRETTO, 76, Grammy-winning "godfather" of Latin jazz; in Hackensack, N.J. Renowned for integrating the conga into jazz, he decided to become a musician after hearing a Dizzy Gillespie recording featuring Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo. In 1961 Barretto recorded the boogaloo tune El Watusi, among the few Latin jazz songs to hit the Billboard charts. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, he formed a decades-long partnership with the Latin pop label Fania, where he popularized salsa music...