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Set in a 1950s West Virginia town, October Sky follows the life of Homer Hickman (Jake Gyllenhaal), the teenage son of a coalminer who pushes his son to follow in his footsteps. Growing up in a town where coal is king, the citizens of Homers world cant fathom pursuing a career in any other field. [...]

You can read it here. I canceled my subscription to The Mag two years ago, but those oversize monstrosities keep arriving month after month. Now, at least, I can look forward to reading a Reilly gem whenever I have to take a meeting. And I was happy to find out it wasnt the Titleist clubs [...]

Teams must design, simulate, build, and fly a rocket capable of carrying two raw eggs to 750 feet (no more, no less). About 700 high school teams compete each year, and the top 100 teams are invited to the finals in Washington DC. We are a first year team and we finished 13th out of [...]

If all goes well, Phoenix will touchdown under its own rockets to mark NASA’s first powered landing on Mars since the agency’s two Viking probes landed in 1976. The last spacecraft to attempt a powered landing - the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander (MPL) - crashed before reaching the surface of the planet’s southern polar region [...]

With the game clock winding down and the Rockets holding on to a 93 to 92 lead, Rockets rookie forward Carl Landry blocked a driving off-balance shot attempt by Utah’s Deron Williams. After a Jazz time out, Utah’s desperation inbound pass was picked off by Dikembe Mutombo to seal the Rockets victory. Utah’s offense went [...]

The HRR began in 1994 and has been media credentialed to cover college and pro basketball — since 1997. Utah now leads the series two games to one. With the game clock winding down and the Rockets holding on to a 93 to 92 lead, Rockets rookie forward Carl Landry blocked a driving off-balance shot [...]

Special thanks to Rachael Walker, Outreach Consultant for Reading Rockets, for providing this post. Listen and watch as six acclaimed childrens writers explore the power and beauty of poetry. Check out too what author Pat Mora, who has written poetry collections for both children and adults, has to say about poetry. In her interview with [...]

Forty years ago Enoch Powell made a speech at the Midland Hotel in Birmingham to a meeting of the Conservative Political Centre. Earlier in the week, Powell had said to his friend Clement Jones, who was a journalist at the Wolverhampton Express but whereas all rockets fall to the earth, this one is going to [...]

Here are some of their questions. Petraeus, in March 2007, a few weeks after taking charge of U.S. Military forces in Baghdad, you said, “There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq.” More than a year later, rockets are still falling in the Green Zone and [...]