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...goes to plan, in a couple of years the trickle will turn into a flood. When it's completed 20 years from now, KAEC will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Bras�lia and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...
...seemingly indestructible Martian rovers have also been busy. Since landing in early 2004, the golf-cart-size Spirit and Opportunity have toddled about on different parts of the planet, dipping into craters, drilling into rocks and sending back data about Mars' makeup and watery past. But the Martian elements have left the rovers increasingly arthritic: Opportunity's robotic arm has stiffened to the point that controllers no longer retract it fully, and Spirit has been forced to drive backward as a result of a bum front wheel...
...Nearly 80 million babies are born a year, all of whom need food, energy and housing. The simplest and most significant thing any of us can do to save our beautiful planet is to limit the size of our families. Yet not a word about population restraint in your Heroes issue. Lorna Currie Thomopoulos, COBHAM, ENGLAND...
...perfect way for a student to choose the right college. In fact, they can be misleading. “One very important aspect of these upper colleges is that in a sense they are very incomparable,” McGrath said. “You can measure acreage, the size of a library, or student-faculty ratio, but you can’t measure some certain aspects of a college that will fit a student’s wants and needs. [The rankings] are there to help get you started.” Former Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis...
When I ask Simons about winning a college tournament at Vanderbilt while still in high school, he dwells on the limited size of the field. When I ask why he neglected to tell me that he recently finished first in a scrimmage between the freshmen from MIT and Harvard, he smiles and says nothing. His Straus dorm room is a shrine to the understated...