| Butterfly dream becoming true
After several years of searching for cash, the Butterfly World Trust has enough funds to embark on the first of three phases. The trust hopes the dome, which will be the largest in the world, will become one of Britain's top tourist attractions. Before an official launch on March 14, the trust is remaining tight-lipped about its sources of cash and the nature of the first phase, which should be complete by summer 2009. The site is in Chiswell Green Lane, next to the gardens of the National Rose Society which sold land to the butterfly project's backers. .
Chicago Bulls (21-31) at New Jersey Nets (23-30), 7:30 p.m.
A pair of teams looking for answers after the break square off tonight, as the New Jersey Nets host the Chicago Bulls at the Izod Center. New Jersey has been busy the past few weeks trying to deal star guard Jason Kidd to the Dallas Mavericks, and the transaction finally came to fruition on Tuesday afternoon. Kidd was sent to the Mavericks, along with forwards Malik Allen and Antoine Wright, in exchange for guard Devin Harris, swingmen Maurice Ager and Trenton Hassell, center DeSagana Diop, forward Keith Van Horn, first- round draft picks in 2008 and 2010, and cash considerations reportedly said to be about $3 million. Harris is questionable for Wednesday's game against Chicago with an ankle injury. He missed his last 10 games as a Maverick. The Nets three-game win streak came to an end before the All-Star break with a 109-91 loss at Toronto last Wednesday.
Cactus League tickets selling despite struggling economy
Tickets to a Chicago Cubs-Chicago White Sox Cactus League matchup were snatched up just minutes after they went on Internet sale last week, a week before they were available at the box office. And several other games are selling rapidly, said Robert Brinton, executive director of the Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau. Things are looking very good. Brinton, along with Valley hoteliers and other tourism leaders, met Tuesday at the Phoenician Resort to hear from White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, a day before he and fellow major league baseball owners meet in Scottsdale. The White Sox are scheduled to leap from Tucson to the Valley for spring training in 2009, the same year the Los Angeles Dodgers jump cross country to join the Cactus League. Despite Reinsdorfs humorous take on baseball as a business The employees make more than the owners, yet people love them and hate us, Reinsdorf said spring training is big business for local tourism leaders.
End of an intellectual whirlwind
A spectre is haunting higher education," Keller declared, "the spectre of decline and bankruptcy." After years of rampaging growth, colleges were gripped by declining enrolments, increased competition, inflating costs, diminishing government support and shifting priorities among those increasingly regarded as higher education's consumers. The future of many traditional institutions was in jeopardy. The only enduring solution, Keller argued, was to take a more vigorous and focused approach to management, using tactics and objectives that had to be developed on an institution-by-institution basis. We could not expect all colleges to accomplish the same things and meet the same standards in the same ways. Nor did it make sense any more to treat the large, expensive, complex modern university as if it were a genteel ramshackle operation to be governed casually and inattentively, if at all.
The Tyrant and the Bomb, Part II
Like his father, the dictator knew that Pyongyang would need help to achieve the ultimate objective of worldwide recognition and his life's dream: a nuclear bomb. The weapon is the one thing that brings 22 million North Koreans (with annual GNP per capita of about $800) on par with 290 million Americans (GNP per capita of $35,400). The official route was relatively unproductive. The Yongbyon ("Project 9559") research reactor the Soviets built for the "Great Leader" went into operation in 1965. North Korean scientists acquired their expertise in Moscow and with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. By becoming a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1985, North Korea agreed to use nuclear power exclusively for peaceful purposes. But the megalomaniac from Pyongyang managed to find others in the world who wanted to break out of the club of nuclear have-nots and build the bomb themselves.
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