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...initiative, for now at least, is more about what NASA plans to cancel than what it plans to pursue. The six-year-old Constellation program, which had been focused on developing new boosters, Apollo-like orbiters and a 21st century lunar lander, all with the goal of making long-term stays on the moon possible, will be scrapped, after $9 billion and a single flight of the Ares 1 booster last October. The longer-term goal of venturing out to Mars is being tabled along with it. (See pictures of the Ares rocket...
...Hollywood cinema, and at the same time, points forward towards the new Hollywood, which was America’s equivalent of the French New Wave.” The Ford festival will screen twenty-two films at its initial presentation this winter, and forty more movies in the next six months...
...CEB—created in 2006 to take over event planning from the UC—had been allotted $200,000 annually to plan five or six major events...
...Gimme Fiction” was the album that launched a thousand soundtracks, but “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” was, perhaps inadvertently, tailor-made for success in 2007 (The stripped-down rock thing worked great that year, just ask Radiohead). Six albums in, Spoon suddenly had consistent radio play and record sales, and more than just music critics realized that Spoon just might be the best American rock band...
Along with the slew of budget cuts announced in May, Smith announced the creation of six working groups across FAS to produce budgetary recommendations for the upcoming fiscal year...