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...freshman William Ke, now at Harvard, said that he thought Tulane’s decision to remain closed was the right one. “I don’t think it’s as disruptive as having a condensed fall semester,” Ke said. His main concern, he added, is that Tulane’s winter semester begins on Jan. 17, before Harvard’s fall term exams are complete. The delay in reopening Tulane and Loyola is mainly a result of the condition of the city of New Orleans, not the damage sustained...
...where costs of living are lower.”But Freeman—who authored a 2001 article in Harvard Magazine entitled “Why Not a Living Wage at Harvard?”—also notes that unions such as the SEIU are still the main outside force in advancing the workers’ demands at Harvard.“The whole point of the living-wage campaign was to...allow the union to negotiate without the fear that they would be outsourced,” he adds. “The bulk of these workers...
...patronage of the U.S. Eight Japanese astronauts have been trained by NASA, and five of them have flown space-shuttle missions (including the flight of Discovery in August that marked the first shuttle mission since Columbia disintegrated upon reentry in 2003). At Tsukuba Space Center, JAXA's main campus, located about a 40-minute train ride northeast of Tokyo, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa and his team were recently putting the finishing touches on Japan's next small step. In a gigantic clean room the size of a warehouse, Hasegawa oversees the assembly of the $3.25 billion Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), Japan...
...since 1980, well below internationally acceptable levels. (China has lost eight rockets in 80 launches.) The most recent humiliation for Japan was an aborted launch of two spy satellites in 2003, when one of the flagship H-2A rockets' two boosters failed to separate from the main rocket shortly after lift-off. JAXA president Tachikawa admits this mixed record is a large stumbling block. "There are people who think that a manned Japanese rocket is not worth the risk," he says. "The only way to make them change their minds is to increase the trust in our rockets. We have...
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