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In celebration of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight into space, the NASA Ames Research Center is hosting a Celebration of Humankind's First Flight into Space, according to a statement from the research center. The event, to be held on Friday at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, begins at 6:30 p.m. and will go through the night until 6:30 a.m. The event will include opportunities for visitors to experience what Gagarin's successors are doing in the world of space exploration. "We hope to get people enthusiastic about NASA plans to establish lunar outposts and send humans to Mars, and we want them to know the key roles the Ames Research Center will play to get us there,'' NASA Ames Director of Center Operations Lewis Braxton said.
Science Center reinventing itself
The Carnegie Science Center is working on a master plan to "reinvent" the center, which is expected to include a major expansion project centered on ecology and the center's North Shore riverfront location. Director Joanna Haas said the master plan is the outgrowth of an 18-month review of the services and programs offered through the center, which opened in 1991. Programming in four of the six areas on which the center will focus can be accommodated in its existing building. The proposed "eco experience" likely will require construction of major indoor and outdoor facilities, and SportsWorks will have to be relocated because of the extension of the light-rail system to the North Shore. The Heinz Endowments, which has taken a special interest in Pittsburgh's riverfronts and ecology, has given the center a $250,000 planning grant.
HoVal robotics team takes 1st place
Hopewell Valley Central High School's FIRST Robotics team 293 won first place at the Chesapeake Regional, held at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., March 15-17. The team and their robot, Spike X, allied with and against other FIRST Robotics teams in a three-on-three contest called "Rack 'N' Roll." The team and their robot also won the Motorola Quality Award, which celebrates machine robustness in concept and fabrication. After the qualifying matches leading up to the final matches, team 293 earned a match record of 7-0-0, and was the only undefeated team in a field of 61. As a result, team 293 was in the top ceded position and earned the first pick when forming their alliance for the final matches. On Saturday, they invited team 75 of Hillsborough and team 203 of Sicklerville to join their finals alliance.
Robot Docs Earn Patients’ Trust At LIJ
The traditional Lassie-era image of the white-cloaked, stethoscope-adorned doctor carrying a black bag into his patients bedroom on a house call seems archaic these days.
Now, in this time of constant Internet access, even the more contemporary practice of doctors visiting their patients at their hospital bedsides is rapidly becoming outdated.
It seems that people have traded in the Lassie era for the Jetsons space age as theyve taken a liking to the new doctors at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital: robot doctors.
Standing at about five feet tall, the gray ET-look-a-like robots, equipped with wheels, a rear license plate and a monitor for a head, zip about from room to room and patient to patient, making assessments and evaluations.
It took about half a decade to produce technology that would allow doctors to sit before their computers anywhere in the world and communicate with patients and other healthcare staff in a moments notice.
The Other: A Guide to Indian Movie Stars - Part 4: The Beauties
No other medium is more suited for magnifying physical beauty than the cinema. Women in particular are the darlings of this particular art form. Beautiful actresses are synonymous with the movies. The majority of the industry's glamour is linked to starlets, so much so that the entire Academy Awards Ceremony is more of a showcase for their poise and resplendent gowns than it is for the outstanding films and performances of that year. The enchantment of the medium is the enduring memory of images, and many are of beautiful faces: Audrey Hepburn's pixie grin as she tilts her sunglasses in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Greta Garbo's stony, enigmatic face in the closing shot of Queen Christina, Grace Kelly smiling surreptitiously behind the steering wheel in To Catch a Thief. Indian cinema's leading ladies are a bevy of Old World beauties.
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