NASA – NASA Selects Technology Payloads For Reduced-Gravity Flights

NASA has selected nine proposals to demonstrate new technologies for the second set of payloads to fly on commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles and the Zero-G commercial parabolic aircraft.

Source:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_11-331_CCC_Payload.html

Punishing BP for the Oil Spill: 6 Brutal Proposals

Eleven people are dead and the Gulf of Mexico has become ground zero
of America’s worst-ever oil spill.

Who’s to blame? In the eyes of most
commentators, BP tops the list. More than a month after the Deepwater
Horizon blew up and crude began spewing into sea and calls to punish
the oil giant are gaining in volume. But what’s the right penalty?

Source:
http://theweek.com/article/index/203410/punishing-bp-6-brutal-proposals