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...Australia, set out to do in 1995. Along with a team of colleagues, he wanted to measure the cosmic slowdown, known formally as the "deceleration parameter." The idea was straightforward: look at the nearby universe and measure how fast it is expanding. Then do the same for the distant universe, whose light is just now reaching us, having been emitted when the cosmos was young. Then compare...
That's key: since the whole universe is expanding at a given rate at any one time, more distant galaxies are flying away from us faster than nearby ones. So Schmidt's and Perlmutter's teams simply measured the distance to these supernovas (deduced from their brightness) and their speed of recession (deduced by the reddening of their light, a phenomenon affecting all moving bodies, known to physicists as the Doppler shift). Combining these two pieces of information gave them the expansion rate, both now and in the past...
...hopes to strike deals with other syndicators and even first-run shows. "You could sell a box of cereal in the kitchen one [airing]," says PVI vice president Paul Slagle, "and dish soap in the next." PVI's Holy Grail: customizing insertions using interactive-TV technology--which is still distant and speculative--that would store viewer information (demographic details, even interactive purchases) as Web browsers do. Your TV would figure, Slagle says, "whether you're riper for a Cadillac or a Saturn...
...When Knowles took over in July 1991, the protests of 1969 were a distant memory. More immediate was FAS’ operating deficit of $12 million—the result of planned deficit spending by Spence that spiraled out of control. Confronting the deficits, Knowles had little time to ask the Faculty where and how cuts should be made...
...been the University’s president—not the College’s. While much of what he has done has strengthened the College, Harvard’s undergraduate education continues to have—at the very least—an image problem: large classes, distant Faculty and poor advising. It is a problem that caused the presidential search committee this year to hunt for someone who would do the same thing Rudenstine did at the beginning of his term: trumpet the College and undergraduate education...