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...Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich said he remembered Hawkins from his work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories, where Hawkins was the scientist in charge of the Harvard Radio Meteor Project. Hawkins was “looking for radar echoes off the meteors,” to ascertain their height and velocity and thus be able to find meteor showers in the daytime...
...said they are awaiting autopsy results and are interviewing the victims’ co-workers and friends to ascertain more details...
...Mass. Hall sources have been unable to ascertain whether University President Lawrence H. Summers will accept FM’s offer to play an informal match of doubles tennis, whether he has even heard about FM’s offer to play an informal match of doubles tennis or, for that matter, whether he has ever heard of FM Publisher Kenyon S.M. “Backhand” Weaver...
...move the deadline to drop classes to the seventh Monday of the semester. An extended drop period, they argued, would allow students to take more risks when registering for classes and make more informed drop decisions. This reasoning doesn’t hold up, however, as students can fairly ascertain their course’s environment within the current five week frame. Fortunately, the faculty committee rejected this proposal, maintaining the current drop deadline...
...full-scale mobilization, these were the first visible signs of military preparations on the highway, and lend a modicum of credibility to the official rhetoric about a readiness to resist an invasion. (With access to the north of the country denied to journalists, it was not possible to ascertain whether similar defenses were being set up along other important highways...