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Chris Dede, 52, will serve as a professor in GSE's Technology in Education (TIE) program and, beyond the courses he will teach, said he hopes to "help the University think about its potential to apply new media to learning across distance...
According to Stone Wiske, director of the Technology in Education program, Dede's experience as a senior program director for the National Science Foundation and a member of the U.S. Department of Education's expert panel on educational technology makes him a pioneer in his field...
...chair of the Kirkland HAND program, said the Pfisters were a "quiet but supportive" presence in the House, always participating in House events...
Missed. Again. The $12.5 billion U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) program suffered another setback Tuesday night when it failed its most elaborate test to date. An interceptor missile fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls...
...multibillion-dollar waste of time. And Russia will fume at Washington's disregard for the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which sharply limits the deployment of such systems. Still, don't expect that to restrain politicians on both sides of the aisle from lavishing billions of dollars on the program - it's enormously popular on Capitol Hill, and unlikely to be scaled back in an election year no matter how poor its report card. The irony is that long-range missiles aren?t exactly the preeminent threat facing the U.S. in the near future. "The bad guys are more likely...