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Why NASA's Moon Landing is the Wrong Model for Science in America

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Dayo Olopade - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - “We are attempting to develop major new systems with ten-year technology, eight-year programs, a five year plan, three-year people, and one-year dollars,” he wrote. What’s more, large, corporate contractors dominate the federal procurement process —hiking up the costs of aerospace technology for taxpayers. The consequences of this lax management can be both embarrassing and deeply wasteful: It took engineers six costly tries to get the shuttle Endeavor, carrying the last Japanese pieces of the International Space Station, into orbit last week.

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The Judge They Feared

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Sherrilyn A. Ifill - May. 27 (Opinion) - Sonia Sotomayor is a powerful woman with a powerful story, who represents in many ways the arc of Latino struggle in this country. Her nomination Tuesday by President Barack Obama has the potential to galvanize and strengthen Latino voters in this country and to firmly lock the Latino vote into the Democratic Party column in a way that may be irreversible for a generation or more.

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Approaching the Whites-Only Bench

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - For state court watchers, last month provided a rare and historic moment to savor: A black governor was tasked with replacing the most powerful judge in the state, who happened to be a woman. Another small chance to make history, perhaps?

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More Than Beads, Booze and Boobs

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Chandra R. Thomas - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - There is admittedly a Girls Gone Wild element to Mardi Gras. You know, the intoxicated young women raising their shirts for beads and engaging in salacious sexual activity on the streets. That may be so for many tourists, but for natives like my family, Mardi Gras is a family-bonding time: cooking out and dancing to the bands marching by, all the while screaming for the beads and other trinkets thrown from the vibrantly decorated floats. I have never once seen anyone in my family flash their assets, to claim worthless, plastic jewelry.

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The Hannity Hate Machine

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Root - By Sophia A. Nelson - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - The problem with black people’s allegiance to liberal ideology, liberal media and Democratic Party politics is that is forces us into a scary kind of “group think” that blinds us to other viable policies, options and points of view that may be of some benefit to us as a whole.

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