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...then robotically make water for an 18-month stay and fuel for the return. Only when it's 100% done do you send humans." For mission planners--not to mention astronauts--spooked by the idea of arriving on Mars and finding that the fuel and water tanks have sprung a leak, redundant tanks could store twice as much as needed and provide some margin of safety...
With such short notice, many HLS students hadn’t even noticed that a construction site had sprung up in their own backyard...
...around to it. But Cameron Johnson, CEO of a new website called certificateswap.com is betting that in many cases the reason is that the shoe--or, rather, the shop--doesn't fit the wearer. Loosely modeled on eBay, a number of websites, including certificateswap.com and swapagift.com have sprung up to capitalize on that fact. Gift-card holders can post their certificates at a small discount and sell them to the highest bidder. Consumers ship directly to each other. The newness of these sites may mean that it takes your certificate a while to trade or that you have little...
...Iraq: A Status Report" outlined changes in Iraqis' lives since the fall of Saddam. It included the economy, education, utilities and security but left out the most dramatic change in Iraqi life: free speech. In the months since Saddam's regime fell, many newspapers (free of state control) have sprung up, access to international media has exploded and people can protest without fear of government reprisal. ROB LAWLER Brewster...
...quality forgery" shops, according to Zoran Stajic, the lead investigator. And Polish police, relying on tips from their German counterparts, shut down a major operation in February in central Poland, confiscating €200,000 in fake notes. Investigations continue in all these countries, and police say new operations have sprung up in Lithuania, Moldova and Belarus. Counterfeiters have started operating in Western Europe as well. Just two weeks ago police in Marseilles detained a 43-year-old ex-con on suspicion of printing some 30,000 fake €50 and €100 bills that were ready for distribution. The largest...