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...array of historic and modern telescopes and observing equipment after sunrise at 5:09 a.m. Downstairs in Lecture Hall B, attendees waiting to view listened to talks highlighting the science of transits, Winthrop’s historic observations, and new applications of transits in cutting-edge research to detect extrasolar planets. Participants also watched a live projection from the roof of the transit-in-progress and live images from locations around the world. Some regions enjoyed more daylight hours for viewing...

Author: By Kenneth D. Schultz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Celebrates Transit of Venus | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...transit coincided as well with a meeting in Cambridge of the team for NASA’s Kepler mission, which aims to detect Earth-like extrasolar planets using transits...

Author: By Kenneth D. Schultz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Celebrates Transit of Venus | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...occupation of Iraq or its support of Israel could move some extremists to attempt to bring the war to the American homeland. "At the end the day, it's probably one of the simplest forms of attack, and it's one of the hardest to detect," says one counter-terror veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FBI Issues Homeland Suicide Bomber Warning | 5/20/2004 | See Source »

...than the FBI at doing bureaucratic judo, working the press or finding a CLASSIFIED stamp for documents that it may not want to see the light of day. The commission found and disclosed a number of these last week that suggested the CIA was slow to report, if not detect, the jihadist army that was forming on the horizon in the 1990s. The commission reported that though al-Qaeda was formed in 1988, the CIA "did not describe" the organization comprehensively on paper until 1999. For years the agency believed that bin Laden was a financier rather than an engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Fix Our Intelligence | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...pandemic and battling the growing obesity epidemic among America's young all at the same time. It also means being able to think globally. During the SARS crisis, for example, the CDC became part of a pioneering virtual lab in which researchers from different continents collaborated via computer to detect, identify and analyze the agent responsible for SARS in record time. Such openness to collaboration is a hallmark of Gerberding's style and will remain the key to how the CDC handles future crises. --By Alice Park

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie Gerberding: The Health-Crisis Manager | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

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