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Grant • A $500,000
grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation
to Cal State Long Beach will be used
to establish a new Center for Education
in Proteomic Analysis, the first of
its kind in the California State University
system, at the campus.
Art • Craig Stone, an associate professor of American
Indian studies and art at CSULB, has a retrospective of his work titled “Shapeshifting:
Studio and Public Work 1978-2005” on exhibit at El Camino College’s
Art Gallery in Torrance. The exhibit runs through Friday. More information
is available at www.elcamino.edu.
Science • NASA
estimated Monday it will cost $104 billion
to return astronauts to the moon by 2018
in a new rocket that combines the space
shuttle with the capsule of an earlier
NASA era. NASA Administrator Michael
Griffin, in unveiling the new lunar exploration
plan announced by President George W.
Bush last year, said he is not seeking
extra money and stressed the space agency
will live within its future budgets to
achieve this goal.
Fundraiser • Projecting an image very different from
that in which librarians are usually portrayed, six Waupaca, Wisc., library
administrators have produced a sexy calendar they are selling to raise money
for their libraries. Five middle-aged library directors and a 32-year-old
assistant each put up $200 and posed provocatively, using oversize books
to cover what their clothes usually do.
Entertainment • Everybody loved “Raymond” one
more time at the Emmys, honoring the show Sunday as best comedy series for
its final season and denying newcomer “Desperate Housewives.” Another
first-year hit, “Lost,” won best drama honors.
Record • An estimated 4,518 pounds of french fries
were consumed during Thursday night’s annual french fry feeding frenzy
at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, N.D. The event is held during “Potato
Bowl U.S.A” week, which recognizes the potato industry in the Red River
Valley and includes a weekend University of North Dakota football game.
Weapons • North
Korea agreed Monday to stop building
nuclear weapons and allow international
inspections in exchange for energy aid,
economic cooperation and security assurances,
a breakthrough that marked a first step
toward disarmament after two years of
six-nation talks. The chief U.S. envoy
to the talks praised the development
as a “win-win situation” and “good
agreement for all of us.” |
