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...only one looking. An international consortium of observatories just announced the discovery of several other super-Earths around Sun-like stars, though these new planets are far too hot to sustain life and too far away to be able to study. Separately, NASA's Kepler Mission will present the first results of its planet search at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington in January. "[The Kepler team] has already submitted 28 scientific papers based on 43 days of data or less," says MIT planet theorist Sara Seager. "It's going to be a big year for planets...
...First, he claims that the amendment “in no way makes abortion illegal.” Perhaps Mr. Lewine is naïve enough to believe that policymakers never try to conceal their agendas in technical wording. The fact that the Stupak-Pitts amendment does not explicitly illegalize abortion means very little when we look at the sector of the population that the amendment will most seriously affect. For the low-income women who have no hope of getting access to supplemental insurance, much less $372, and have not planned their pregnancies, Stupak effectually will render abortion illegal...
Lisa M. Coleman, Tufts’ first executive director of institutional diversity, will join Harvard as Chief Diversity Officer on Dec. 30, the University announced last week...
Sagun Tuli, the plaintiff and the hospital’s first female spine neurosurgeon, was granted $1.6 million by a jury in Feb. 2009 after refusing an earlier settlement with Brigham and Women?...
...senior fellow post—which can be described as the first among equals—differs from that of the Chair of the board, the President, who leads the meetings. But Houghton has been a distinct and important presence in the group: he is responsible for representing all Corporation members on certain occasions and chairs the meetings when the President is absent, wrote Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane in an e-mailed statement...