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Without regular servicing missions—one of which was scheduled for 2004 until NASA’s shuttle fleet was grounded in the wake of Columbia disaster—the Hubble will literally fall out of orbit. Instead of reinstating the cancelled servicing mission, however, NASA officials and the...
More renowned for putting out glitchy lap-pop like Daedalus and Dntel (Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service), Los Angeles-based Plug Research has somewhat paradoxically taken a chance with a far more conventional album, Mia Doi Todd’s Manzanita. Although Todd has flirted with the contemporary sound...
Some U.S. allies have not lifted a finger to help bring about this new day in Iraq. They have justified their passivity by saying they opposed the war, and that opposition they in turn justify as grounded in concern for the sovereignty, safety and dignity of the Iraqi people.
Airbus' reaction to the 787, meanwhile, has been baffling. At first, Forgeard was quoted as dismissing Boeing's new plane as a "Chinese copy" of Airbus' similar A330. But last December, Airbus abruptly shifted and said it would build a derivative plane called the A350. Boeing spins the A350 as...
But even more problematic than the viscerally anti-Summers speculation is the lack of understanding of the nature of the academic inquiry in which Summers engaged. Summers acknowledged the existence of the “innate differences” hypothesis at a conference at which scholars presented and heard research...