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...diameter, focused more faint starlight than anything else on the planet. But in the past few years, the Hale has been humbled. Here on Mauna Kea alone sit the Subaru telescope (no relation to the car), with a mirror more than 8 m (27 ft.) across; the Gemini North telescope, also topping 8 m; and the kings of the mountain, the twin Keck telescopes, whose light-gathering surfaces are an astonishing 10 m--33 ft.--in diameter...
...medium since the turn of the 20th century--every telescope on Earth saw its power boosted a hundredfold essentially overnight. That kept the scientists happy only for a while, however, and everyone agreed that telescopes needed some sort of radical new design. Unfortunately, says Matt Mountain, director of the Gemini Observatory, "nobody knew how to make the conceptual leap...
...first two rounds, teams prepared answers to case questions and were each judged by a representative from one of the five consulting firms that sponsored the event--McKinsey, Bain, Monitor, Oliver, Wyman & Co. and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young...
...some other form of repackaged management skills. Actually, it's a grab bag of techniques that combine bits of all these with "nuggets of wisdom" from arenas as diverse as football and 12-step programs. Sometimes what a coach does, says Kathleen Phillips, an in-house coach at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, the former management-consulting arm of Ernst & Young, is help a client see a problem--or a problem job--a different way. In that way, say proponents, coaching helps shore up weak points in their employees as well as build on their strengths...
...ITEM: Gemini spacesuit gloves (3) ESTIMATE: $5,000 to $7,000 WENT FOR: $18,400 COMPARE WITH: Shuttle astronaut gloves...