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...costs and go back to R&D. In a new study obtained by Reuters, a task force led by Christopher Kraft, a key figure in the Apollo moon program, says future shuttles should haul space cargo commercially, and advises NASA to cut back on an expensive "safety shield" for astronauts developed after the 1986 Challenger explosion. "Safety is one of those terms that can be used to hide behind and prevent necessary change and innovation," the Kraft team wrote. NASA officials say the report is "one piece of many'' that agency officials are assembling as they try to chart...
Then lightning struck again--twice. Last fall, Krokodiloes members accused their former business manager of using approximately $3,000 of the group's money for personal purchases. Epps again missed the opportunity to take a firm stand; he preferred to shield the group and its former head, who had graduated from the College already, from the law. Clearly, Epps had no business whatsoever defending a former student...
...addition, students are encouraged to purchase Harvard Blue Cross Blue Shield, Rosenthal said. This insurance plan currently costs $600 per year and will drop to $566 next year, he said...
Currently, Blue Cross Blue Shield covers major dental work, but not minor dental problems. To implement a dental plan, Rosenthal said he will need the support of the Harvard administration...
...pariah by the narrow-mindedness of others. She is betrayed and abandoned by friends and lovers; her children remain outcasts by association; she is destroyed by the death of those dearest to her. Vienna is, above all, a woman for whom brilliance and sensuality provide a painfully meager shield against the truculence of fate...