Word: astrophysicist
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Some helpful responses, Administration sources indicate, would include free passage out of China for Fang Lizhi, the dissident astrophysicist who took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing last June and is still there; the lifting of martial law in Beijing and Tibet; Chinese pressure on the murderous Khmer Rouge to allow a political settlement in Cambodia, and amnesty for pro- democracy demonstrators...
...that you do, some of you may be conjuring up an image of a cheerleader that isn't all that flattering. And this image probably doesn't coincide with your conception of the typical Harvard student--you know, the one who's going to be the next great astrophysicist or President of the United States. But, remember--Harvard is supposedly a tolerant community...
While scientists cannot monitor these waves directly, they can see the effects on the solar surface. "On reaching the surface," explains Juri Toomre, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado, "the waves cause the gases there to move up and down" -- oscillations that astronomers can measure. To date, they have discovered millions of different oscillations, up- and-down motions with cycles ranging from 2 1/2 to 13 minutes. Some are caused by seismic waves confined to a zigzag path near the surface, others by waves that plunge as far as four-fifths the distance to the solar center before being...
...capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February, sought refuge in the U.S. embassy; the presence of the "traitor" there provoked Chinese complaints of American meddling...
...signal of future breakdowns in relations could be China's condemnation of the United States for giving refuge to dissident Fang Lizhi, a well-known astrophysicist. China accused Fang, who fled to the U.S. Embassy, of attacking the communist system and said Washington was interfering in China's internal affairs...