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Pathfinder owes much to the trail-blazing Vikings, which snapped the high-resolution pictures that enabled Pathfinder scientists to choose an appropriate landing site. The Vikings also pioneered the heat-shield and parachute technology that contributed to Pathfinder's safe and remarkably precise descent...
Pentagon officials, it seems, could use some remedial mathematics instruction. The Pentagon's timetable for building a national missile shield to protect Americans against a handful of incoming enemy missiles keeps slipping. In each of the past three years, Defense officials have said they were six years away from operating a scaled-down, ground-based "Star Wars" system that could cost up to $10 billion...
About six months ago, Mayor of Cambridge Sheila Doyle Russell and members of the Cambridge School Committee met with Rudenstine in the posh Faculty Club. They left with a baseball cap especially designed for the meeting: It had a veritas shield right above the word "Cambridge," symbolizing the teamwork between the city and the University...
That's the political rationale, but whether expansion is really a good idea is more complicated. For example, will extending the West's nuclear shield eastward mean more stability in Europe, where war this century has cost 50 million lives, including those of 500,000 Americans? Or will expansion just redivide Europe along a more eastward line, angering Russian nationalists who consider the plan an offensive danger and who may respond by ousting the new democrats, stopping the reduction of nuclear and chemical stockpiles and resuming nuclear threats? Is it sensible to extend a military alliance and in the process...
...many Harvard students subscribe to the notion that anyone educated outside of these ivy walls, or any idea or institution which does not bear the veritas shield, should be discredited or discounted...