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...There are companies like Virgin Galactic now trying to open up commercial space travel right now; did you ever think to yourself, maybe I'll just wait until these are viable and save myself $30 million? I've been in this a lot longer than there's been a Virgin Galactic. Those of us who founded Space Adventures are, generally speaking, the same people who founded the X-Prize. And the X-Prize is what created the opportunity for Burt Rutan to go build SpaceShipOne, and Virgin Galactic came in and paid to have ?Virgin Galactic? painted its tail...
That's why Mittermeier and I are here, to see Madagascar's wildlife while we can, and to see what's being done to save it. After a day in Antananarivo - a sprawling, diesel-soaked city that earns the adjective "teeming" - we leave by car for Andasibe, a former logging village that is now home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade. On the winding road we see the result of centuries of tavy, traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. The verdant forests that once covered much of Madagascar have been burnt or torn down, replaced by muddy rice paddies and secondary shrubs...
...several grade levels behind in basic math and reading skills are left to slip through the cracks. Other proposed remedies for the education crisis—from charter schools to private school vouchers—merely skirt the systemic problems with public schooling and instead look to save a notable few students. By failing to provide access to all students, they fail to satisfy the ultimate goal of public education. Rather than move students to other schools, their current schools should be made better. And if fiscal incentives can effectively motivate teachers to increase student achievement, schools should utilize...
...young as 18 and as old as 82 have been christened since 1981. Among their feats: slowing the speed of light (optical physicist Lene Hau, 2001), mapping the human genome (geneticist Eric Lander, 1987), penning acclaimed novels (Cormac McCarthy, 1981; the recently deceased David Foster Wallace, 1997), scheming to save our threatened fisheries (lobsterman Ted Ames, 2005) and solving Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematician Andrew Wiles, 1997). Seven have nabbed the Nobel Prize, including geneticist Barbara McClintock (1981) and former U.S. poet laureate Joseph Brodsky (1981). Others have won Pulitzers, Fields Medals -the math world's top honor - and National...
...single issue: Can Prime Minister Gordon Brown win over increasingly fractious critics? Should Labour dump him in the hopes that a successor would rescue the party from its historic depths of unpopularity? Or would such an ouster unleash infighting that would shred what it was meant to save...