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...That was easier in theory than in practice, though, and nowadays astronomers use other methods to measure the distance to the sun. The world will be watching next month, but mostly out of curiosity and wonder at seeing a planet move across the face of the sun-firsthand proof that the seemingly two dimensional sky is anything but. Another transit is coming June 6, 2012. If you miss that one, you're out of luck. There won't be another transit until...
...Seth W. Moulton ’01 has seen the horrors of war firsthand. A marine under his command was seriously injured by artillery fire during the fight for Baghdad last April. “They didn’t think he’d make it, but he did,” Moulton said...
...part of the program, the fellows will travel to explore public service work firsthand...
...family-owned corner greengrocery. Each week Sy (estimated net worth: $1.4 billion), sporting his trademark Hawaiian shirt, gathers his six children at the company's warehouse-style offices near Manila's waterfront, where they oversee nearly every aspect of the business. On Saturdays family members fan out to conduct firsthand inspections of their SM malls, department stores and supermarkets. On Sundays Sy, 80, insists that the family meet yet again, either at his $2 million luxury log cabin in the lush hills outside Manila or at the family home in the swish Forbes Park district of the capital. He cooks...
...Texas Instruments has created a low-price, flat-screen alternative to the biggest plasma-TV sets with its DLP (digital light processing) rear-projection technology. "Just when you think innovation is dead, this shows you that it's very much alive," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer for Firsthand Funds, an investment firm based in San Jose, Calif...