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...Monday from New Mexico had a lot more riding on it than just the high school experiments and cremated remains that were to be hurtled into space for paying customers. UP Aerospace of Connecticut heralded the maiden launch of its SpaceLoft XL rocket as the beginning of a new era of affordable public access to space...
...think we are in the early days of a new era in space that says the average person now can get access to space," says Jim Banke, vice president of the Space Foundation. "What you're seeing here is basically guys working in a quiet little hangar somewhere to put together this rocket and launch it without needing 10,000 people and the vice president of the U.S. to show up to make it happen...
...with someone in the Mountaineering Club so you get to use their sweet indoor climbing wall. 7) Find leg warmers on eBay and take up inline skating. 8) Use your House gym, and then burn calories on the walk to UHS after you get tetanus from the WWII-era free weights. 9) Meet two dates at the same restaurant at the same time; burn calories running and fretting. But mostly fretting. 10) Synchronized swimming in the Charles. 11) Steal booty from the Lamont security guard who looks like a pirate; run as he chases you with his hook...
...sustained a serious blow last February when its key leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev - who had been Nazarbayev's Information Minister, secretary of the Security Council, and ambassador to Moscow - and two associates were murdered by a group of officers belonging to the National Security Committee (KNB), heir to the Soviet-era KGB. Late last month, a court found Yerzhan Utembayev, the former Senate chief of staff, guilty of putting out the contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity," and sentenced him to 20 years. Nine others received sentences ranging from three years to life for complicity in the murder...
It’s not anything close to a leap back to the era of free love, but it is a step toward safer sex and preventing cancer. In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Gardasil as a vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer in women. Subsequently, the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that girls receive the vaccine routinely at age 11 or 12. The vaccine offers a major breakthrough in women’s health...