...says she 's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson. The West Virginia Republican met with Jackson Thursday to discuss delays in the mine permitting process in Appalachia. The...

In this article: Shelley Moore Capito, EPA, Lisa Jackson, West Virginia, Environmental Protection Agency, Appalachia, and Washington

...made his lunar pledge. The key line was not the crazy bit about landing a man on the moon, it was the hubristic promise to do so by 1970. If Wernher Von Braun had insisted the moon was unreachable before 1975, they probably would never have...

In this article: NASA, John F. Kennedy, Mars, Julie Payette, US, Democracy, International Space Station, and Buzz Lightyear

...for pigs. The award has been likened to the Oscars of Invention. It has gone to luminaries such as Larry Page , co-founder of Google ; Burt Rutan , developer of SpaceShip One; Elon Musk , a developer of PayPal and Tesla Motors ; and Dean Kamen,...

In this article: Cattle, Amino acid, Iowa State University, Brewing, Biofuel, University of Pretoria, Burt Rutan, PayPal, and Tesla Motors

...to space. This exclusive event, hosted by Virgin Founder and Chairman Sir Richard Branson and world renowned aircraft designer Burt Rutan , will take place in Mojave, CA on December 7, 2009. The three House of Travel retailers are the...

In this article: Virgin Galactic, Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites, Richard Branson, New Zealand, Palmerston North, and Mojave, CA

...foreigners into their jails to witness guards delivering a hard beating on fresh prisoners. Canadian officials never witnessed Maher Arar being brutally cable-whipped in a Syrian jail, but they believed him enough for Prime Minister...

In this article: Detainee, Peter MacKay, Taliban, Stephen Harper, Afghanistan, Ottawa, Washington, and Maher Arar

...Air Act and Clean Water Act , and may step in when states aren't adequately enforcing the law, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Tuesday. Lisa Jackson , a New Orleans native, was named EPA chief by President Barack Obama "Many of these...

In this article: Lisa Jackson, EPA, New Orleans, Louisiana, Pollution, Barack Obama, Toxic waste, and Lower Ninth Ward

Ken Follett says the 141-word "Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit'' by Beatrix Potter "still teaches me how to write. '' Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak loves the Tom Swift Jr. series because Swift "represented the epitome of creative freedom,...

In this article: Sherman Alexie, Tom Swift Jr, Nobel Prize, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Steve Wozniak, Apple, and Orhan Pamuk

And I'm not sure it's even possible. CNET ( Molly Wood ): So you're going to need that 70 percent after all. Eric Schmidt : Yes. Eric Schmidt : Well, thank you, thank you so much for having me. CNET ( Molly Wood ): It's been nice...

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MOUNTAIN VIEW , CALIF. - It has been quite a year for Google CEO Eric Schmidt , and upon the close of his interview this week with CNET , he ruefully shook his head in acknowledgment that the world is not likely to slow down for the perhaps the...

In this article: Eric Schmidt, Google, Android, CNET, Chrome OS, Google Wave, Web-based, and Netbook

...the face of space. The Virgin Galactic name was registered in 1999. However, it wasn't until 2001, when Whitehorn was visiting Burt Rutan , the California -based aerospace inventor and former test pilot who was pioneering the use of...

In this article: Will Whitehorn, Virgin, Virgin Galactic, Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, X Prize, Chris Gorman, UK, Victoria Principal, and Physics

...is why it is impressive that Mr. Savier won this year's Fuelventure 400 in his modified VariEze (originally designed by the famous Burt Rutan ) by getting 45 MPG at 207 MPH, and this with two people on board (and for those wondering, there...

In this article: Burt Rutan, Continental, Oshkosh, Panama City, Florida, and Wisconsin

...airport and then moved to Syria , where he says he was tortured, cannot sue the United States , a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. Maher Arar , a Syrian-born software engineer, was arrested by U.S. officials during a 2002 stopover in New...

In this article: Maher Arar, United States, Syria, U.S. Supreme Court, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, Allegation, and Guido Calabresi

...him to Syria. The U.S. has dismissed his lawsuit against the government. TOM HANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO NEW YORK - Maher Arar cannot sue the United States after being mistaken for a terrorist when he was changing planes in New...

In this article: Maher Arar, United States, U.S. appeals court, U.S. House of Representatives, Supreme Court, Ottawa, and Syria

...to the moon for extended stays as preparation for what would someday be a manned mission to Mars. Under a new NASA administrator, Michael Griffin , the agency put together the Constellation program, which called for two new rockets, a...

In this article: NASA, Ares, Michael Griffin, Norman Augustine, Orion capsule, Space Shuttle, Mars, and SpaceX

...finalist for the provost job. In April 2008, Schuster was named Interim Institute President, succeeding former Institute President G. Wayne Clough. During his tenure as interim president, Schuster led the institute through budgets cuts, which...

In this article: Gary Schuster, G. P. "Bud" Peterson, Georgia Tech, Strategic planning, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Chemistry, Revenue, E mail, and Jean-Lou Chameau

...changed the face of motoring. The world's first gas-electric car (pictured above) was built by 18-year-old Ferdinand Porsche as he worked his first job with coach-builder Jacob Lohner & Co from 1898 to 1906. Propelled by four electric-drive...

In this article: Ferdinand Porsche, E mail, Wired.com, and Austro-Daimler

...to light in the book, Nazi Culprits in Stuttgart , by journalist Ulrich Viehoefer. As part of his research, Viehoefer investigated the role of Ferdinand Porsche after Hitler came to power in 1933. As many as 300 people were forced to work...

In this article: Ferdinand Porsche, Stuttgart, Haaretz, and Israel

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