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This year the stargazers will have more than ever to shoot. Lunar eclipses will occur on May 16 and Nov. 9. And in August, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in at least 50,000 years. Amateur astronomers, already drunk on the sky, are likely to get giddier still. "There's a mind-stretching aspect to it," says Berman. "You look through a telescope and don't have to say a thing." The sky, as always, is perfectly capable of speaking for itself. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Nancy Harbert/Fort Davis, Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral...
...Harvard, a similar group of research experts is undertaking a related study. The Provost’s Committee on Biodefense Research and Regulations, assembled last August, will present a report—the result of its deliberations over the course of the year—to University Provost Steven E. Hyman next month...
...Stanley Tucci and Edie Falco, seems to have been to break up Tucci's marriage. (The show is closed, but he and Falco, who played a nude scene together, are now tabloid fodder.) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was the first play, and still one of the best, in August Wilson's projected 10-play cycle on the African-American experience in the 20th century. But couldn't we at least have waited until he finished the project (No. 9 opens in Chicago this week) before starting all over again--with Charles Dutton playing the same part he created...
...tradition of the H-Y Regatta dates back to August 3, 1852, when a group of Yale rowers challenged their Crimson counterparts to a two-mile race on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Harvard won the contest, which became an annual event held on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. The varsity race now covers four miles—the longest crew race in the country...
...with then-Mathematics Department Chair and current Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71 last spring, who told Nowak that Harvard’s natural sciences would benefit from his presence at the University. Nowak was granted a tenured position at Harvard in August 2002, which he accepted...