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June 2, 2004 John L. White [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
Combs Elementary fifth-graders watch a student-made rocket fly, one of twelve that took to the air behind the Raleigh school during a display given by Laura Bottomley, the Director of Women in Engineering and K-12 Outreach from NCSU's School of Engineering. The students spent half their class time making rockets out of cardboard, foam, and various other materials before Bottomley attached an A-series rocket engine to their creations to prepare them for takeoff. "I like seeing the kids get excited about science, math, and engineering in a way the textbook can't produce," Bottomley said.
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Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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