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...even that was enough to stagger the hardened bunch: some of the inmates actually wept. "It propelled them so far outside of where they are, they didn't have words to describe it," says Marymount College astronomy professor Bob Berman, who teaches the prison course. By the end of the class, even some of the guards were peering through the telescope...
...thus democratizing this once elite science. Amateurs helped track the trajectory of the doomed shuttle Columbia. Indeed, the very distinction between amateur and professional astronomy may be vanishing. "There are professionals who can't even tell you the exact location of a galaxy they have been studying," says Berman. "And then there are so-called amateurs for whom the sky is a second home...
According to Berman, McKinsey said 40 percent of the total $1 billion Harvard spends on goods and services cannot be bid on competitively...
Summers and Berman say that mandating the schools’ participation in purchasing plans would bring no added windfall...
...Berman, Summers and others say it’s too early to measure the full benefit of these efforts, but that they are optimistic they will make a difference...