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Skier pointed to acts of civil disobedience—which the BGLTSA is prohibited from performing as an official student group—as a way that QRF activities could supplement the BGLTSA’s queer activism on campus...
...large American peacekeeping deployment in Iraq was the last thing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted when he was planning the war. He and his deputy, Wolfowitz, hoped to bolster postwar security by redeploying elements of Iraq's 400,000 troops to supplement the relatively small invading force. With Saddam gone, the plan was for Iraq's civil servants and police to step in to help run the country while a U.S.-chosen governing council handled the nitty-gritty of administration until democracy blossomed...
...Eisner continues to produce nearly a full book a year, making him more productive than many artists one quarter his age. In addition he appears in San Diego every year to hand out the comics industry awards named in his honor. Creator of the groundbreaking "The Spirit," a comic supplement that appeared in newspapers from 1939 to 1952, Eisner went on to a 25-year career as a pioneer in the field of comics as educational material. Later, in 1978, his book "A Contract with God" appeared, published by a small press. Twenty-five years after this first-ever "graphic...
...answers, marketers hope, can be discovered through an emerging quasi-science known broadly as psychographics. Market researchers supplement conventional marketing data with informed assumptions about personality traits and human behavior gleaned from other disciplines, including psychology, sociology and probability theory. Using computers to organize and manipulate vast storehouses of such consumer information, they believe they are getting much better at sorting people into categories of like-minded individuals. And once the sorting is done, they are getting better at predicting how people are likely to behave...
...Columbia accident report called on NASA to develop a shuttle replacement as soon as possible. As a result, the space agency is taking a new look at spacecraft designs that were once intended to supplement the shuttle strictly as a crew transfer vehicle for the space station, but now might have to serve as a bridge between the shuttle and some next-generation spacecraft based on technology that might not emerge for decades. NASA could have to live with its choice for some time, and that gives the capsule and its ability to leave Earth orbit a big boost. "There...