The most public criticism came from the sports lawyer David Cornwell

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Two 16-year-olds from Troy, Mich., Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma, formed the other winning team, with an experiment that will look at whether a fungus-killing bacterium will become even more effective at burberry shirts for women cheap killing fungus when it gets back from a trip that will make it temporarily weightless. Scientists already know that salmonella bacteria become more virulent in zero gravity, and the bacterium in their experiment, Bacillus subtilis, contains the same protein that caused that change in salmonella. “The idea, that having your experiment in the space station, is so surreal and so literally out of this world,” said Ms. Chen shortly after the winners were announced on Thursday. As for the zebra spiders, Mr. Mohamed does not think they will figure out how to catch fruit flies in space. These spiders do not spin webs, but they do attach a silk lifeline to themselves before leaping; this will allow them to reel themselves in and try again and again to aim themselves at fruit flies sharing their space station habitat. Both experiments are already being designed and constructed at BioServe Space Technologies, a research center run by the University of Colorado at Boulder, and are scheduled to fly to the space station on a cargo ship launched by the Japanese space agency. Sunita Williams, a NASA astronaut, is to perform the experiments, which will be broadcast online. For their grand prize, Ms. Chen and Ms. Ma will go to Japan for the launching of their experiment. Mr. Mohamed chose the other option: He will go to Star City in Russia for a week of the same training that Russian astronauts undergo. Goodell has not yet disciplined the 22 to 27 players the league’s investigation says were involved in the bounties. Among them is the Saints’ defensive captain, Jonathan Vilma, who the N.F.L. said put up $10,000 that would have been paid to anyone who knocked Brett Favre out of the N.F.C. championship game in January 2010.Ray ban sunglasses, cheap gucci sunglasses, burberry sunglasses sale. “N.F.L.P.A. leadership looks forward to meeting with the commissioner to discuss the league’s ‘bounty’ investigation,” a union statement said. “To date, neither the league, nor the Saints, have helped us facilitate interviews with members of management or the coaching staff. We expect the league to provide all information so that we can ensure a fair process for all who were involved.” According to a person briefed on the conversations between the league and the union, the N.F.L. told union representatives that Saints coaches and other employees were free to speak to the union if they wanted to. The union has no disciplinary authority over players, coaches or front-office executives in this situation. But several weeks ago, when the investigation first came to light, Goodell asked the union’s executive director, DeMaurice Smith, for his recommendation about player discipline. The league has not received an answer. Disciplining players is a more delicate matter for Goodell, who said in a statement Wednesday that he was troubled that players were enthusiastically involved in a program that encouraged injuring opponents. But the union would probably fight any discipline it deems overly harsh, a situation Goodell, and perhaps the union, would probably prefer to avoid. Given the severe penalties leveled against members of management and the coaching staff, most observers expect a suspension for Vilma. Another tricky wrinkle: the former Saints linebacker Scott Fujita, who is now with the Cleveland Browns and is active in union matters, has become enmeshed in the scandal. The manner in which discipline is issued will affect how appeals can be made. If discipline for bounties falls burberry ties under on-field activity, it will be issued by Merton Hanks and Ray Anderson, who are in charge of the league’s football operations. Their decisions could be appealed to people mutually chosen by the union and the league. If the discipline falls under the heading of off-the-field activity, it can be issued by Goodell and can be appealed only to him. Whatever Goodell’s decision on player discipline, the issue of bounties is not likely to go away. Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois who is the assistant majority leader, announced Thursday that he would be chairman of a hearing on bounties in sports before the Senate Judiciary committee’s Subcommittee on Crime. The hearing would try to determine whether federal sports bribery laws should be expanded to include sports bounty programs. Representatives from the N.F.L., the N.H.L., the N.B.A., Major League Baseball and the N.C.A.A. will be asked to testify. The union also announced that Smith, whose contract was due to expire this month, had been re-elected in a unanimous vote of player representatives at a union meeting in Marco Island, Fla. Smith, a lawyer, was originally elected burberry watches for women pink in 2009 as a virtual unknown in the sports world. He is likely to serve another three-year term, the standard length for such agreements, despite some criticism of the collective bargaining agreement he negotiated with the league to end last year’s lockout. The most public criticism came from the sports lawyer David Cornwell, who is now the head of the coaches association. Smith was also criticized by some players upset about how personal-conduct and drug-policy punishments were handled in the wake of the lockout. GIANTS RE-SIGN CARR One day after the Jets made Tim Tebow the most famous backup quarterback in the N.F.L., the Giants addressed their reserve quarterback situation — albeit with significantly less fanfare. 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