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...discussed as "organized chaos," with all the dimensions of the mission being considered at once. That speeds things up by letting the engineers working on, say, the propulsion system know what the engineers working on the camera system are thinking--a good thing, since cameras add weight, affecting thrust. Of the 70 or so missions that come before Team X in a year, only one or two are ever recommended to NASA. The group technique assures that those two missions are well thought through and, by this time, well loved. "I need them all to own the mission," says Oberto...
...thrust of the ID argument - that there are many things not yet explained by the theory of evolution - will be challenged by expert witnesses, on the grounds that it holds true for a variety of other widely taught scientific theories. Plate tectonics, for example or even Einstein's General Theory of Relativity fail to cover all bases. Still, ID'ers will counter, failing to teach kids about the scientific controversy over evolution is tantamount to keeping them ignorant. Except that there is no significant scientific controversy. ID proponents are correct in maintaining that there are legitimate scientists - a relatively tiny...
...sugarcoat the prospect of an outbreak, he says, and there's nothing in NIPAC's plan about managing public hysteria. "There's a feeling in Australian society that the government will protect us, that we don't need to do anything," he says. "But people are going to be thrust back on their own resources...
...think I've actually dodged several bullets, though, having read scripts of unutterable badness. And even utterable badness. They did a cover article on me once in the Hollywood Reporter about two years ago, the entire thrust of which was that I was the person who sold the most things to Hollywood without anything getting made, which at the time I suspect was a completely specious argument anyway...
...Congress also expedited the provision of more than $50 billion in federal assistance—an impressive feat, considering that last year the government was unwilling to honor a request for just a sliver of that amount for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans. In both cases, being thrust squarely in the face of disaster seems to have inspired the government to redefine the meaning of “doing...