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Steen said yesterday that while reverting to the old core switch software is not an immediate setback, HASCS will eventually try to install the new version again...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--The Harvard men's hockey team had a little extra baggage to carry with it on its second (and shortest) of three annual trips to upstate New York: the burden to prove that its last three losses in four games was only a minor setback...
...That would be a devastating setback for the agency's ambitious program of sending a lander and an obiter craft to Mars every 26 months. The failure of another $100 million probe just months after the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost as a result of the now-infamous metric mixup could mean an entire rethinking of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" strategy, and threaten congressional support for the whole Mars project. Already the criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything...
...pretty big setback for me," Gellert said. "I haven't been able to practice for the past couple of weeks and it's hard not being on the court with the rest of my teammates. It's important to get used to your teammates and I haven't had that chance, but hopefully I'll be able to start practicing in a week or two and be back to start the season...
...panic. That's TIME Digital editor Josh Quittner's advice to Microsoft investors Monday, as the stock price fell 5 percent in the first hour of trading following last Friday's antitrust case setback. (It later recovered to 89.93, and finished down just 1.8 percent on the day.) "Microsoft is the same company it ever was - one of the greatest concentrations of brainpower on the planet," says Quittner. "That's not going to change, and the company shouldn't be worth any less Monday than it was on Friday. Moreover, most investors had good reason to expect this ruling." Judge...