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  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, plans about two million square feet, roughly double the size of Columbia's, which is in turn much larger than the others.

    NYT > Home Page By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA 2011

  • Another bill that would have given the District of Columbia's representative in Congress full voting rights stalled earlier in the year after Senate Republicans attached a provision that would have eased tight gun controls in the district.

    Concealed weapons proposal faces 'high noon' vote 2009

  • Dustin Aksland for The Wall Street Journal The three guest bedrooms upstairs are relatively small; their restrictive size is intended to encourage socializing in the public areas, says Ms. Sato, a 50-year-old adjunct associate professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

    Shelter Island Compound 2011

  • Sweet deal for a "prominent member of British Columbia's ball hockey community."

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • If Columbia's disintegration in 2003 had been the first loss of a shuttle rather than the second, "President Bush might have made a different decision on whether to keep the shuttle flying," says former astronaut Jay Apt, who joined NASA shortly before the Challenger accident and now is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

    25 years later: How the Challenger disaster brought NASA down to earth 2011

  • The decision is notable in particular because of Columbia's deep ties to the armed services in the World War II era—Eisenhower once ran the joint—that the university repudiated in 1969 to appease the student and faculty activists who stormed academic buildings.

    ROTC Homecoming 2011

  • For large carnivores in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest it unquestionably is, for it marks the start of the spring recreational hunting season.

    Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores Chris Genovali 2011

  • A lawyer by training, Nelson was also a member of the space shuttle Columbia's crew in 1986.

    Florida's Bill Nelson to run for third Senate term 2011

  • For large carnivores in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest it unquestionably is, for it marks the start of the spring recreational hunting season.

    Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores Chris Genovali 2011

  • Since then, the shuttle has lifted off 132 times, returning safely to Earth on all but two missions: Challenger's launch on Jan. 28, 1986, and Columbia's return flight on Feb. 1, 2003.

    U.S. human spaceflight and the road ahead 2011

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