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...What??s different from a century ago is that we now have the ability to spot many of the 20,000 or so dangerous NEOs long before they approach earth. Of course, we’ll only spot them if we’re looking for them. But in a report it previewed Monday, NASA declined to allocate any additional funds from its $17 billion annual budget for this task...
...What??s unique about this scientific task—identifying and cataloguing the orbits of NEOs—is that can be accomplished without using tremendous resources. In the past decade, 20 professional and 100 amateur astronomers across the globe, led by the Garden Street-based MPC, have identified three-quarters of asteroids at least one kilometer across, and all on a budget of a not-so-gargantuan $4 million per year (in 1996 dollars). Within the next two years, he expects that the MPC-led teamlet will have identified 90 percent...
...Viagra viable, while Elena’s son beds a woman twice his age—Max’s ex-wife. But outside the bedroom, hardly anything happens. Smiley islands her reader in the kitchen or the TV room, where there is nothing but talk and Iraq. But what??s the purpose of 449 pages of opinion on entering a war four years after the fact? If this is a protest novel, it comes a bit late. Say it ain’t so, Jane.Smiley finds a measure of redemption in her beautiful evocations of interiority. Each...
...fair, I am not blaming the Harvard College Democrats for getting needlessly preoccupied with the 2008 election. The media has so saturated our society with the latest gossip on what??s happening on the campaign trail, it’s no wonder people have turned into cyborgs, mindlessly going into New Hampshire to spread the gospel of Obama, Hillary, or this Dodd fellow...
...easy to get caught up in the flashiness of the presentation but what??s really exciting is the story it tells,” said Freierman. “It shows extraordinary progress in substantive programs. I think that it is good news all around for the schools.” —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...