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...MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT IN U.S. rocket research occurred in October 1957 when Russia beat the U.S. in the cold war space race by launching the satellite Sputnik. Thanks to the frantic efforts of U.S. officials to match that feat, aerospace engineer and longtime Caltech professor Homer Stewart was hired to help develop a similarly impressive craft. With guidance from Stewart-- who later worked on early planning for the Apollo mission--the U.S. sent into orbit its first successful satellite, Explorer I, in January 1958. Stewart...
...produce 6.14 billion gal. of corn ethanol a year, according to the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), an industry trade group. An additional 86 plants are being built or are expanding, which could account for 6.4 billion gal. more a year. But William Tierney, a risk-assessment consultant with John Stewart & Associates who specializes in corn ethanol, estimates that an additional 400 projects in various stages of development could add 28 billion gal. to the RFA's conservative figures. Add 5 billion to 10 billion unannounced gal. that Tierney expects to hit the market in a few years...
...This kind of name-calling that dominates politics has been bemoaned by countless political commentators—Jon Stewart has practically built a second career criticizing the nastiness of Washington debates. And many a politician has based his or her appeal on promises to end this kind of bickering...
...form letter from Martha Stewart, written on her trademark Living stationery and sent to supporters during her prison stay, sells for $25. An envelope hand-addressed by jailed Panamanian General Manuel Noriega is $350. Both are for sale on "true crime" Internet sites. But beyond the odd curiosity of a prison thank-you note from America's housekeeping guru and an innocuous envelope from a fallen dictator lies the online shopping world of macabre, shocking and soul-chilling prison collectibles - magazine fashion ads defaced with satanic symbols and stained with the bodily fluids of a campus shooter, a sketch...
...Builder & Titan, Martha Stewart...