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...adds an innovation: the same hybrid motor used by SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004--laughing gas shot through rubber. In comparison, the spaceship being developed in great secrecy by Bezos' Blue Origin looks like a lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household disinfectant, though in a highly purified form, with a touch of kerosene) appears based on an old Delta Clipper design done for NASA. Musk's SpaceX designers favor the NASA look too--of old Apollo capsules--but that translates into ocean splashdowns...
...pretty pieces of our colorful puzzle keep more or less to themselves. The Democrats have their group, and the Republicans have theirs; the football players and the ballet dancers inhabit separate spheres; there’s one organization for the Chinese students and another for the Irish. Yup, we’re all here, but with all of the separation, it isn’t too often that one gets to see our seemingly picture perfect diversity live and in action. That is, until you step into a classroom...
...content-free. You sit there for 45 minutes, periodically dozing off (last spring the course met at 10 a.m. in Yenching, which is a killer walk for the lazy), and when you stumble out into the light, you realize you’ve taken about five sentences of notes. Yup: Watson literally said nothing.Basically he shows slides of his farm in Iowa. But the TFs can be cute and a lot of fun—high marks go to Joon, a laid-back West Point grad who showed Conan O’Brien clips in class?...
...more parents in homework-heavy districts take such actions? Do too many of us think it's just our child who is struggling, so who are we to lead a revolt? Yup, when it comes to the battle of homework mountain, we've got too many Indians and not enough sachems...
Widener Library: 1. Titanic library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Home to the stacks, where students go to pore over books. Yup, nothing but readin’ in these stacks...