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...Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman, J.B. Pollack and Carl Sagan in a study entitled "Nuclear Winter Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (and referred to as TTAPS after the authors names), examine a previously ignored effect of nuclear detonations: the creation of dust and soot that can float in the middle and upper atmosphere for years. Isolated detonations the only kind we have witnessed in our experience with nuclear weapons to date do not generate enough dust and soot to create any long term atmospheric changes. But any nuclear war between the superpowers is likely to involve thousands of warheads...
...When Harvard originally inherited the estate, they had practically a medieval arrangement where the local farmers were peasants on the estate," says Fine Arts Professor James S. Ackerman, an advisory committee member. "Now they're employees of Harvard," Ackerman explains...
...Tatti's farms are administered by a fattore, who negotiates the terms of the farmer's employment. Ackerman translates this word as "bailift" and likens the official to the overseer on a Southern plantation...
...Ackerman agrees that "the families have a really good deal," saying, "being on the Harvard welfare system is better than most things around there...
...Ackerman added that he does not know of any other administrators who have taken courses he teaches, but Jewett said he has been informally auditing courses for the past seven or eight years...