| The 50 Best Robots Ever
ROBONAUT Not all NASA robots drive around poking at rocks. This android will one day work alongside people on space stations. Robonaut is the same size and shape as a person in a space suit, so it can handle tasks typically performed by humans - its hands are even better articulated than an astronaut's gloved digits. The fact that it looks like Boba Fett? Lucky coincidence. .
Archives for: July 2007
Brayton Point (on right) is one of the biggest electricity producers in Massachusetts. But each year, its smokestacks release several million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — inefficient generators and high-carbon coal fuel make it one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the Northeast... Even among politicians who are endorsing action to combat global warming, there are varying degrees of commitment, notes Sue Reid, a staff attorney at the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation. She pointed to Sen. Edward Kennedy and Congressman William Delahunt's opposition to the proposed Cape Wind project off Cape Cod as an example of how political positions on climate change can be fickle... Read the rest of this Standard-Times article here. .
IE sees a growing need for vocational schools
There's a growing need for trade and vocational schools in our area because much of the local population needs training after high school, county vocational educators say. Mark Lyons, administrator for the San Bernardino County Regional Occupational Program, which provides trade courses and vocational training free of charge to high school students and some adults, said ROP served about 30,000 students last year. The program also provides classes to prepare for careers in fields such as automotive technology, office occupations, industrial technology and child development. Schools such as DeVry University in Pomona and its new Colton campus, which opened last year, are also finding a population to serve in the Inland Empire. DeVry differs from traditional four-year schools in its students' opportunity to earn a four-year bachelor's degree in three years or less by offering flexible year-round and online courses, spokesman Dan Dement said.
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