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Computer Science Professor H. T. Kung is now the William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and the new computing lab is being funded by a huge grant from Microsoft bigwigs Steve A. Ballmer '77 and Bill Gates. In February, (News, Feb. 20), we learned that Microsoft had awarded two undergraduates a year's tuition and paid internships at Microsoft. Plus let's not forget all those Harvard graduates who went on to work for Microsoft as summer interns or full-time employees, or those current students who aspire to work in Redmond. Microsoft...
...Nino is as natural a pattern as are the seasons [SCIENCE, Feb. 16], since it is not produced by human actions. But global warming has an effect on El Nino, because it influences the climate of the whole earth and enforces natural extremes, droughts as well as floods. Temperature differences increase, and that causes more and heavier storms and other natural catastrophes. You have to pay attention to all the connections in climate because everything is related. You cannot separate one phenomenon from the climate as a whole. THOMAS FEHER and BENJAMIN GREIFF Dresden, Germany...
...Mandela decided on a new approach. And after painstaking preliminaries, the most famous prisoner in the world was escorted, in the greatest secrecy, to the State President's office to start negotiating not only his own release but also the nation's transition from apartheid to democracy. On Feb. 2, 1990, President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. and announced Mandela's imminent release...
Further, the Dean, by refusing to sign the final bill, was not ignoring the opinions of most of the women on campus. True, "dozens of visiting students" did show up at the Feb. 22 council meeting and a large number of e-mails against the bill did flood the group's e-mail list. But these visits and e-mails were prompted by vigorous and inflammatory messages sent out by those who opposed the original bill. We encourage the administrators of Harvard and, especially, Radcliffe to be brave enough to recognize once and for all that Radcliffe is no longer...
Fast forward five years to Feb. 1998 and Wilson is standing before the class, crying about how much she wants to change her life...