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Roger Travis, engineer, presidential appointee (Boston Globe)HINGHAM -- Roger E. Travis , an engineer appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the US Metric Board, died March 24 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 69.

Mogul, rebel team up in commercial space venture (Houston Chronicle)American engineer Burt Rutan and British tycoon Sir Richard Branson may seem like they come from different planets. Yet the improbable duo are in the same orbit ? forming the Spaceship Co. in 2005 to launch ordinary people into space without government help.

Chretien 'surprised' by gay marriage rulings (CTV.ca)Jean Chretien helped engineer the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but he wasn't prepared for the way the courts used it to overturn something he'd always taken for granted.

NASA Engineer Helps Train Puppy For Future Leadership Role (Science Daily)One of NASA's newest workers is a top dog ... literally. A golden retriever puppy named Aries goes to work every day at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. as part of the "Leader Dogs for the Blind" program.

Job Detail CAD Support Engineer (E4: Engineering)CAD Support Engineer required to provide support and introduction for all Engineering Computer software and to improve working practices for the CAD environment. Develop and introduce new spreadsheets / databases into Engineering to improve working methods.

Web radio broadcasters appeal rate plan (AP via Yahoo! News) Rusty Hodge got into Internet broadcasting seven years ago after becoming frustrated with the FM radio stations in San Francisco, where he worked as a Web engineer.