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Many NASA critics take it further. The agency's role, they say, should be to explore the far reaches of the universe by roving robot, leaving Earth's orbit and the moon to the private sector. "We're in this transition zone, where the Lewis and Clark role of NASA has been done on the human side," says space activist and rabble rouser Rick Tumlinson, founder of Orbital Outfitters. "Now it's time for the settlers and shopkeepers to move...
Passion won't make up for redundancy, warns Diana Aviv, ceo of Independent Sector, a trade group for nonprofits. "Unless you're truly filling a need, it's just self-indulgence," she says...
When not wearing a tie and working at his day job in the financial sector, Roberto Ruiz spends his time the way a growing number of Nicaraguan men do: training roosters for razorblade battles to the death. It's like training a boxer, he says. A good program includes running the bird to build stamina (hooded sweatshirt optional), putting the bird in the sun to sweat out grease and develop plumage, and throwing the bird up in the air to build wing strength...
Then, at the end of 1999, Putin took over. Since then he has ruthlessly reasserted Kremlin control over the energy sector and the media. The economy has bounced back, with growth averaging 6.8% and inflation coming down into single digits. Putin's most impressive achievement, however, has been to restore Russia's global clout. While his predecessor acted the clown on the international stage, Putin has relished playing the tough guy. Indeed, when I saw him speak at the recent international Conference on Security Policy in Munich, the Russian President gave a striking impersonation of Michael Corleone in The Godfather...
...change. A report to the Prime Minister last December on nuclear power, by former Telstra chief Ziggy Switkowski, estimated that the additional electricity-producing capacity to drive the nation at mid-century will need to use technology with near-zero greenhouse gas emissions (to keep emissions from this sector at today's levels). The Task Group is now taking submissions from the community and will report to the P.M. by the end of May. "Given the scale of the challenge faced," the group says in its issues paper, "there is no room for complacency." A local emissions-trading scheme...