Word: developments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...addition to Virgin Galactic, the site will host X Prize founder Peter Diamandis' annual cup and his Rocket Racing League (think NASCAR at 5,000 ft. up). Even NASA may send some business out West. The agency last week completed a study on creating incentives for private industry to develop a way to ferry people and goods to the international space station so NASA can focus on getting to Mars...
...National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. "There is a need to ask big questions, to say, 'Are pieces of the charitable sector still legitimate?'" But few people, even regulators, are willing to saddle nonprofits with a version of Sarbanes-Oxley. California's Lockyer hopes states can help nonprofits develop better management skills rather than simply throw a raft of new rules at them. "The next step ... would be to try to figure out how to provide those [accountability] skills to people who are devoted but don't have a history of management," he says. Perhaps most encouraging is the rise...
...Also, take it slow. The first kiss will usually begin with a gentle peck on the lips. And if the mood hits, it can then develop into something more passionate. But don’t think that you’ll go directly from point A to the moon...
...becomes a very good experience for bonding with your classmates,” says Danielle M. O’Keefe ’08. “Generally, all my classes here have been like eight people, and when you’re there that much together, you develop friendships. And VES is really like an extracurricular, because you spend so much time at the studio together.”The lights flicker off and a square of light pops up on a screen at the end of the table. Images appear and start moving across the screen...
...course no one really cares, and spite is a lousy foundation for a major life decision. Years pass and habits form: you get used to leaving early or staying home, and you might develop a curious surrogate relationship with your record collection. Eventually, inevitably, investment becomes identity. Your sobriety is no more a matter of choice than, say, your political sympathies, or your allegiance to the hometown football team. Who would you be without...