He starts with an affecting visit to his maternal grandmother, to whom he "somewhat awkwardly uttered the salute 'Shalom!' " as he took his leave; but soon enough he uses his genealogical exploration to make the more brutal, unsentimental point that "a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews".
It is a tantalizing bonanza for the Bush administration, which has strongly backed exploration to make up for a decline in domestic oil production; for oil companies, which are scouring the world to find new supplies; and for Alaskan authorities, who need to keep the trans-Alaska pipeline flowing.
In the last 2 years Google and its nonprofit spinoff have launched a variety of science projects in areas ranging from astronomy education to lunar exploration to making electric car batteries work better.
Examples are the need to reduce the number of challenges per scenario to six in the second workshop and the different simplifications applied in the Scenario Exploration System to make scenario explorations possible in a 3-h time frame (e.g. only one 'public voice' and only 4 scenario explorers).
What captivated me, however, were Mr. Toan's explorations of how to make a space station habitable, as well as the simple tools he brought to his task: sketchpads, color slides, videotape and scale models that were almost literally built of bubble gum and baling wire.
"But with some of the younger American and other designers who have been using bold prints, I'd ask the question: 'Do they favor print out of the desire for textile exploration or just to make simply constructed clothes?"' "Obviously it's all about cycles in this business," she continued.
His "continuum of sound" deliberately involves the folding of phrases over one another, on and on, and though he realises that this may not be fashionable and he himself will not always be writing in such a style, it was an exploration he had to make.
Any proposal to protect some vent systems from exploration may need to make them off limits to observers as well, Mullineaux says.
"We firmly believe that search is still in its infancy – and this partnership marks the next chapter in our exploration of how to make search truly great," noted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
One of the key issues for planetary, especially Mars surface exploration, is how to make an objective assessment of criteria for landing sites selection for future rovers, sample return missions and landers considering topographic variables such as slope, altitude and roughness as well as their physical scattering properties.
