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...rovers were launched atop separate boosters. Spirit left Earth on June 10, 2003, and Opportunity followed on July 7, taking advantage of the biannual close approach Mars and Earth make as they orbit the sun. On solar system scales, a close approach is still a goodly distance - 35 million miles in 2003 - which means that the rovers needed seven months to get where they were going. Spirit landed first, bouncing down in a swaddle of air bags in Mars' Gusev Crater. Opportunity followed three weeks later, landing on the other side of the planet in what is now known...
Harvard’s annual report for fiscal year 2008, which ended on June 30, disclosed that Radcliffe and the Divinity School relied on endowment income for 83 percent and 71 percent of their operating budgets, respectively. The University-wide average for endowment dependence was 34 percent for fiscal year...
...announcing that one is turning over a new leaf is different from actually changing entrenched realities. The question now is whether the new constraints placed on the U.S. military by the security pact will indeed visibly shift leadership to the Iraqis by June - when U.S. combat troops are supposed to be out of Iraq's cities. Another question: What will the consequences of that shift in command responsibility be in terms of security and keeping order in Iraq? (See pictures of a detention center in Baghdad...
...decreed that instead of continually revising the definition of a second, atomic clocks would be adjusted by adding a leap second each time an appreciable discrepancy was detected by observations made at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris. Since then, 24 leap seconds have been added, either on June 30 or Dec. 31; the last one was tacked on in 2005. At that rate, "it will be 5,040 years before we gain an extra hour," Novick says...
...June, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told MSNBC that Obama's game was not up to par. "I don't know if he would tell you [that he and his companions] played golf," said Gibbs, responding to a query by an MSNBC anchor about Obama's game. "They went to a golf course and they swung clubs, but I don't think it was real pretty...