August 2010
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“São Paulo is the second largest corporate jet fair in the world and, like everything in Brazil, it’s growing.”
—Monocolumn: Business Jets: No Room To Spread Their Wings? - PSFK
“By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crew missions beyond the moon into deep space,” Obama told an audience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “So, we’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history,” he added. “By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to earth, and a landing on Mars will follow.”
—Obama Aims Space Program at Mars : Discovery News
Vending machines for prescription drugs on trial →
bbc.co.uk
Customers will use a unique ID or fingerprint as well as a Pin when putting in their prescription and again when they come back to collect the medicine, ensuring the drugs go to the correct person. While the patient waits, the pharmacist will prepare and place the drugs into the machine for collection.
“I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” he elaborates. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.”
—Holman W. Jenkins Jr.: Google and the Search for the Future - WSJ.com
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