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...shot the A-bomb tests of the 1950s and stories on autism and education, but Allan Grant, a staff photographer for LIFE magazine from the '40s through the '60s, made his name capturing stars. The dashing Grant caught Howard Hughes flying his Spruce Goose in 1947, Richard Nixon atop his house during the 1961 Brentwood-Bel Air fire and the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe alive (shown above). Grant...
...Harvard Kennedy School policy research group received a $1.46 million grant last week from a charitable foundation devoted to, among other issues, environmental conservation. The grant will fund a three-year program by the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, aimed at finding methods to reduced greenhouse gases. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation chose to give Harvard funds from its $100 million Climate Change Initiative because of the University’s prolonged focus on the issue, according to Kelly S. Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group. “The fact that Harvard...
...conditions for a high deposit rate. What further sets Harvard’s proposal apart from the others is its opt-out provision. Whereas other repositories depend on faculty opting in by volunteering to provide digitized copies of their work, the Harvard system would have all faculty members grant a non-exclusive permission to the President and Fellows of Harvard to distribute their articles. The system would be collective but not coercive. Anyone who wanted to retain exclusive rights to her- or himself could do so by obtaining a waiver. Of course, those who cooperate with the system will also...
...equivalent of being detained,” George said. “As time goes on, and she demonstrates the need for more—go to the doctor, take a course somewhere, something benign—I hope that it will be something the court will grant.” The alleged victim in the case, Wolfe B. Styke, is a sophomore at MIT whom Tang dated for several years. Their relationship ended at the beginning of October, according to court documents. Though the two were at first on friendly terms, Tang soon began to send threatening e-mails...
...million grant issued by the Northeast Asian History Foundation will focus on Korean ancient history to provide suggestions for the future direction of the country’s interactions with its neighbors. “A strong, viable relationship is not founded on the liquidation of history, but by building viable trust,” said Yongdeok Kim, president of the Seoul-based foundation, which will dispense the grant over the five years to the Early Korea Project. The grant will fund a series of workshops and publications, including an academic journal presenting Korean scholarship in English. The Early Korea...