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Comment Leadership (Score 1) 127

References to forms of national leadership are interesting. A nice peak for the reign of the Virgin Queen, the appearance and growth of President in line with the upstart of those bloody colonies in North America, President finally tops King just about the time of the Great War, but King reasserts until the Second World War finally pushes President on top. Interestingly enough, King comes back and surpasses President just about the turn of the Millennium. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=King,President,Queen&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Comment Re:memories... (Score 1) 266

Eleventh grade for me. I followed the Shuttle program ever since watching Enterprise "launching" from the back of the 747 in glide testing. I remember thinking (in my youthful arrogance) that it was silly and a PR stunt to include McAuliffe on the mission. Launches were becoming routine, but we still stopped everything in Colorado history class to watch the spectacle. Not much else happened in school that day as every class seemed to diminish into quiet speculation as to what could have happened. Lots of discussion too in math and science classes about the space program, the disasters that beset the Apollo and so forth. To this day I fight back chills when I hear Mission Control say "Go with throttle up" during a launch. And in September this year it will all end ...
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Submission + - Fighting fire ants with flys (yahoo.com)

charlesj68 writes: "Fire ants are a major problem for remote electrical equipment in Texas, and control of the little beasties has been difficult. Now, using natural predators from the same area as where the ants themselves originated, some advances have been made.

And besides, we have parasites that turn creatures into zombies! What's not to like?"

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