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Thanks to a $650,000 federal grant, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are developing new affordable telescopes they hope will improve high school science education nationwide.
Under the program, scientists are designing telescopes that can be mass-produced cheaply and that can view the stars during the daylight hours, when students are in school, said Owen J. Gingerich, principal investigator for the project.
BUT that's only one small part of the story. Whether the "bidding war" argument is valid or not, less compelling are arguments that the most expensive colleges in America should be allowed to set tuitions together, often before their financial information becomes public, as now appears to be the...
The plan's success is far from certain, of course. General Michel Aoun, commander of the Christian forces fighting Syria and its Lebanese Muslim allies, warned in East Beirut that "the war of liberation will continue" until the Syrians are driven out. Muslim warlords also dismissed the Taif meeting and...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups...