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Blastoffs on a budget

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Private rocket builders are trying to create a market for developing space flights similar to passenger airline flights. Though this sounds like an ambitious project, the cost is still too high and stiff government challenges are to be overcome, but it is acknowledged that real-world access to space has come close within the grasp of entrepreneurial dreamers and venture capitalists, rather than only being the domain of national governments.

Author: Horvath, Joan C.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Commodity & service prices, National Government, Public Administration, National Government by Function, Innovations, Evaluation, Prices and rates, Space flight, Rocket planes, Rocket airplanes, Company pricing policy

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Bluffhead

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Bluffhead is an interesting card game, in which each person takes a card from a shuffled deck and holds it, face out to his or her forehead, and the best card wins, such as Ace is the highest, and suits do not matter. This puzzle deals with inferring information about the cards people hold by hearing what the players say, and thus guessing what they have.

Author: Shasha, Dennis E.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Game, Toy, and Children's Vehicle Manufacturing, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Puzzles, Methods, Varieties, Cards, Card games, Shasha, Dennis E.

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If small pox strikes Portland

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Advanced computer stimulations let epidemiologists unleash virtual plagues in real cities to see which interventions could best quell outbreaks of disease. Some of the models such as, Episim model, which is based on Portland, Transims that stimulate human movements to eradicate small pox virus, and other worldwide problems is discussed.

Author: Smith, James P., Barrett, Chris L., Eubank, Stephen G.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
Science & research, Poland, Research, Practice, Plague, Epidemiologists

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Subjects list: United States, Management, Company business management
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