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...Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics, Charles R. Alcock, wrote in an e-mail. Goodman is also a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center. Foster and Goodman summarized their findings in a paper submitted for publication to the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Traditional images of nebulae, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, employ only the visible light spectrum. While these images can be impressive, they reveal only the surface of the cosmic clouds—not the deeper and denser regions in which stars are formed. Foster and Goodman were taking images of a nebula using near-infrared bands—which...
...foundation helping youth in need; it's given money and advice to more than 60,000 young people to help them start their own businesses. As a kind of charitable entrepreneur, Charles runs 15 other foundations, all but two his own brainchildren, that raise over $190 million per year, employ 1,400 and attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming, alternative medicine and urban planning reforms to make communities more livable. He wants business to be more environmentally...
...sure that their allies are elected as village chiefs. And, as was the case in Taishi, it can also mean attempts to rig local elections. In China's countryside, new alliances of ?lites have emerged among township officials, companies, high-ranking cadres, village leaders and the hired fists they employ to do their dirty work, and whom farmers call "the black force." These alliances rule by controlling the ways laws are implemented, and through violence. Farmers who don't obey can be fined, beaten, jailed, even killed...
...this sort of original research since 2004, when he was appointed Harvard’s first “fun czar.” Since then, his title has changed and a new “fun czar” has been crowned, but Corker has stayed in the employ of his alma mater. His latest project: planning the first ever Harvard College Pub.This week at Princeton, though, he took an uncharacteristic detour—away from pubs and into the Frist Center, Princeton’s student life hub.Undergraduate Council President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 would...
...Mart decided to rely on Garner's local knowledge, contracting Broadway Consolidated first to demolish the old factory and then to build the 150,000-sq.-ft. superstore that will employ as many as 300 people. Garner says that the work will produce between 150 and 200 construction jobs, half of which will go to minorities. Half of those minorities will be African Americans, including black men who often have the hardest time finding jobs: ex-cons. In a city whose building trades are dogged by allegations of racism and in which the unemployment rate for black...