Phoenix sends first photos from Martian Arctic

Cool.  American ingenuity kicks butt again.  :-)
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has sent back its first images from the Red Planet, black-and-white self portraits showing its deployed solar arrays and legs on the Martian surface. 

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An update from Chengdu: An e-mail from my student translator

Below is an e-mail from Liu Shuping, the student that served as my translator while I was attending the International Conference on Public Administration last October at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu.  Shuping, as a Foreign Languages major (Political Science minor), adopted the Western name of Susie for her English [...]

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Mixing a bit of fact with a bit of fiction: HBO’s Recount

Recount premieres tonight on HBO at 8:00PM Houston time.  It ain’t a documentary. It provides a mostly fictional account of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering between the Bush and Gore campaigns over the 2000 Florida re-count.  Enjoy!

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Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignment

Why I Continue to Run — Senator Hillary Clinton, New York Daily News
Michelle Obama Is Fair Game – Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Learning to Speak Olympics - English Instruction in China — Mike Meyer, New York Times
Big 12 a big winner during BCS era — Tim Griffin, ESPN
Top 10 Worst Sports Fashion Trends — The Love of [...]

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