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...imagination, as unlikely a home for humans as it is for diminutive green men. To a surprising number of prominent scientists and politicians, however, it is the next frontier, a new world to be tamed and colonized. Gathering in Washington last week for a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Humans to Mars? Why Not? | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

After Gillian Apps trimmed the lead to 2-1 with a breakaway goal with one-tenth of a second left in the middle frame, St. Lawrence reeled off three straight man-advantage tallies to bury Dartmouth in the closing 20 minutes...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Postseason Awards Soften W. Hockey's NCAA Loss | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

David M. Kaden ’06, president of the IOP, says that “if determination is nine-tenths of success, it looks like she’s well on her way.” Unfortunately for Sadar, however, the other tenth happens to be the voting public of the United States of America...

Author: By Sam Teller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On the Red Phone With... Faith Sadar ’08 | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

When books written by people from your ethnic group, gender, or sexual orientation are one-tenth of the curriculum in a class, it’s not easy...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, POP AND FIZZ | Title: Larry Learns a Lesson | 2/25/2005 | See Source »

...year, the list shrunk to less than a tenth of the lucky 400. Clinton and Gore struck out, but dozens of Harvard outsiders were still in consideration. Condoleezza Rice, the former Stanford provost who was then helping George W. Bush to secure his presidency; Richard D. Klausner, then the director of the National Cancer Institute; and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan all made...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What If He Weren't President | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

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