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...hurt? Yes! How the hell did they think I'd feel?" Ralph Asher Alpher once said of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for the Big Bang theory without citing Alpher--30 years after he had proposed the notion in his doctoral dissertation. The physicist was eventually recognized for his work, with awards including the National Medal of Science...
Hamas, until now, had been a frightening but amateurish opponent. With its October operations the group graduated to a whole new class. "We now have an internal security problem of emergency proportions," said Joseph Alpher, director of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will have a harder time selling future accords with the Palestinians to anxious Israelis...
...path by a master. Timothy Foote "I was tracked for science in high school," says A.G. Mojtabai (sounds like much to buyee), a 36-year-old New York City librarian, "and in some ways I've had no literary education at all." Her maiden name was Ann Grace Alpher. Eventually she went to Antioch to major in philosophy and math (as well as taking graduate degrees in philosophy and library science at Columbia), but she remembers being put in Slow English at Westfield High School in New Jersey, where she played ticktacktoe...
Perhaps Mr. Richard M. Alpher, who wrote [Oct. 6] about making "your stupid Southerners stupider," should come South to school to learn the proper use of the comparative form of the word "stupid." How can we come to mutual understanding when we have such people, who are blatant, ungracious, prejudiced and ignorant...
RICHARD M. ALPHER Washington...