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Another souvenir Discovery brings home: A successful navigation experiment with Global Positioning System satellites. For the first time ever, the shuttle successfully received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that...
...20th century saw more restless experimentation with style and content in art than any other in history. Never before had there been so many ideas about what art could be or how it could be made; never had new art been the subject of such impassioned controversy or reached so large an audience. Museums, especially in the U.S., had to embrace newness or look retro. The century didn't see the birth of the avant-garde--that had happened earlier--but it did bring its death, after experiment and eccentricity became the norm. Inevitably, all that had seemed startling...
When those portentous white envelopes slide underneath the doors of anxious first-years tomorrow morning, the randomization experiment will be nearly complete.... After the Class of '98 graduates, some of us will remember when the House had character, but none who lived with it intact will remain at the College...
And this semester may have also been animportant experiment to determine the shape of thenew policy, generating a model for how closeHarvard's financial aid must be to its competitorsbefore name value does the rest.
In the short term, the success of the Japanese experiment could change a few of physics' fundamental laws -- if the results hold up. "The concept of the massive neutrino has been proven -- and then disproven -- before," adds Lemonick. "But these guys are considered the best in the world, and their...