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...endangered Hubble Space Telescope may have life yet, thanks to a NASA-sponsored program to develop a robot that could be its remote-control savior. For all the yeoman's work Hubble has done--peering deeper into the universe and farther back in time than eyes or earthbound instruments had ever managed--its prospects looked bleak a few months ago. The telescope was facing eventual loss of power and gyroscope failure, which would cut short its life-span by years. But given President Bush's ambitious plans for a manned moon and Mars program, NASA was looking for projects...
Stehle scored the Crimson’s first six points of the game en route to his—and Harvard’s—second double-double of the season. Stehle’s yeoman effort included 22 points and 11 rebounds in a team-leading 39 minutes—all career highs—and a perfect 10-for-10 performance from the charity stripe...
...celebrate a great enabler of global trade. No, not the Internet but rather a humble yeoman of commerce without which the Internet would be all ordering and no delivery. We are talking about the corrugated container, better known as the cardboard box. How could we even connect to the Internet without the cardboard boxes that brought us our computers? And how would those myriad goods we order reach us without cardboard boxes? Although e-commerce accounts for only a fraction of cardboard-box sales, it is a very fast-growing fraction and likely a big part of cardboard's future...
...President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But he has privately grown more frustrated, and now, sources close to Powell tell TIME, he has a firm plan for his exit: he will step down at the end of President Bush's current term. "He will have done a yeoman's job of contributing over the four years," says a close aide. "But that's enough." The aide says Powell's view of the matter is, "I did what my heart told me to do. I got [Bush] here and set him up. I did the best I could...
...Johan Strauss' operetta "Gypsy Baron." Students in Dunster House--known as "Funsters"--staged Donizetti's "Anna Bolena." In Eliot House, the play that year was Ben Johnson's "Every Man in His Honor." After selling out "H.M.S. Pinafore" the year before, Winthrop House put on Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeoman of the Guard...