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...work on the famous 200-in. glass mirror for the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar; beyond that size, glass mirrors tend to sag and distort un-acceptably, affected both by their own weight and by changes in temperature. The only larger mirror in the world, a 236-in. monolith atop Mount Semirodriki in the Soviet Union, is apparently hopelessly flawed and has done little significant work since being completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller mirrors work together, simulating a single large one. The computer-synchronized Multiple-Mirror Telescope atop Mount Hopkins...
...Harvard decides on Cech as its leader, it will have to lure the Nobel laureate away from a plum post atop the nation’s fourth-richest private research center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI...
...Olympic Sculpture Park, for instance, is located on the former site of a fuel-storage and -transfer facility, which is why nearly all the original soil had to be dug out and carted away. And the City of New York is planning a huge and inventive new park atop Fresh Kills, the massive landfill--meaning garbage dump--on Staten Island where much of the debris from the Twin Towers was hauled after 9/11...
...just of bringing out the most, in terms of Harvard’s fans, but the best, in terms of Harvard’s performance. That was certainly the case on Friday night, when the two squads skated to a thrilling 2-2 tie, maintaining No. 4 Dartmouth atop the ECAC standings, but in the end establishing both teams as legitimate national title contenders and re-affirming the matchup as one of the sport’s premier rivalries. The pairing suffered a bit of a downturn in 2005-06, if the attendance number from Harvard’s home...
...platform being built by BP, which will be towed to an oil field 75 miles offshore, where the company expects to pump about 320,000 bbl. a day beginning in April 2008. "This is a time of big change," says Mushvig Osmanov, 26, an Azeri engineer for BP, standing atop the half-built platform, gazing at the crumbling old oil wells. "Suddenly we have Western styles and tastes...