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Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allan Counter, the first of four scheduled speakers, expressed concern for the future of educational funding...
...does. Having turned off millions of fans and dissed the President of the United States, baseball has lost the most famous athlete in the world. His declaration that he was through was not merely the retirement of a 32-year-old Double-A outfielder. It was one more Edgar Allan Poe story for the game. Vincent Price would be a perfect choice for the commissioner. First of all, he has had experience with this kind of horror. Second of all, he too is dead...
...Allan H. Jackson Millgrove, Ontario...
...Allan Sandage is angry at his astronomical brethren too, but his beef is just the opposite of Lauer's. The Carnegie Observatories astronomer has spent much of his nearly 40-year career trying to measure the age of the universe; it's a task he inherited from his mentor Edwin Hubble, the legendary scientist who discovered that the universe is expanding and that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way. For decades, Sandage's results have suggested that the cosmos is 15 billion to 20 billion years old or thereabouts. That fits beautifully with cosmological theories-but almost nobody believes...
While most astronomers take these numbers very seriously-along with the cosmic paradox they imply-Allan Sandage, Freedman's grumpy colleague down the hall, is having none of it. He doesn't quibble with her measurement of the distance to M100, but insists that the analysis breaks down after that. Like most astronomers, Sandage has his favorite method of gauging the relative distance of galaxies. He finds a type of supernova-an exploding star-and compares supernova brightnesses from one galaxy to another. He claims, as he has done for more than 20 years, that the Hubble Constant is lower...