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Saturday, March 01, 2003

Failure modes
In a kick-off keynote address at the 2001 OOPSLA in Tampa, Henry Petroski discussed success and failure in design throughout history, concluding that there is a unique interrelationship between the two.Failure could be generational, said Petroski; when engineers start to work with new design paradigms they take great care. Then as things get familiar, they forget about the fundamentals and they push, sometimes beyond the real design limits. From ADT's January 2002 issue.

Regal condor killed in the wild - San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 21 Feb 2003
The last female California condor to be born in the wild and to remain living in
the wild has been shot to death by a poacher.

NASA chief: E-mails were handled properly - Chicago Sun Times - 28 Feb 2003
NASA's top official said that engineers' dire email speculations while Columbia was still in orbit were properly evaluated.

Bush climate change study flawed, scientists say - Environmental News Network - 26 Feb 2003
The Bush administration's plan for research into global climate change lacks a focus to guide officials science panel said.

Art, and DNA - THEDNAGE.COM

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