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Meanwhile another 12 professors, including Geller and Huchra, are jointly tenured by Harvard and the Smithsonian but are paid by the Smithsonian...
...There's always a friction" between faculty, Huchra said, deriving from the perceived "second-class" citizenship of the Smithsonian staff. Other tensions appear when the center attempts to set long-range goals. Professor of Astronomy Margaret J. Geller says that Harvard has been "dragging its feet" on a proposed $20 million telescope to be built in the Southern Hemisphere. The University apparently prefers to rely for now on the Smithsonian facilities...
...Freestyle: 1. Eric Osborne, Princeton, 44.55; 2. Albert Price, Princeton, 44.66; 3. Andy Geller, Yale, 45.03; 6. Greg Tull, HARVARD, 45.70; 8. Keith Kaplan, HARVARD...
Nature's editors were duly skeptical. The magazine had printed, with disclaimers, some dubious reports in the past. In 1974, for example, Nature published a paper that claimed Psychic Uri Geller, since discredited by Randi, could predict dice throws a million times as accurately as chance would predict...
Rocketed into fame by the Geller affair, Randi has gone on to expose psychics, dowsers, levitators, astrologers and other naive or fraudulent stars of the paranormal world. For example, after a St. Louis parapsychology laboratory claimed to have discovered two boys who could mentally bend spoons, create images on unexposed photographic film and change the position of clock hands, Randi pounced. The precocious wizards, he declared, were in fact skilled amateur magicians. With Randi's connivance, they had been planted in the lab -- which soon lost its funding and closed down. And when a psychic demonstrated on a TV show...