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...scenario," says John Hoffman, a physicist at the University of Texas at Dallas who is working on a 2007 Mars probe, "is to send rockets up two years before people go, then robotically make water for an 18-month stay and fuel for the return. Only when it's 100% done do you send humans." For mission planners--not to mention astronauts--spooked by the idea of arriving on Mars and finding that the fuel and water tanks have sprung a leak, redundant tanks could store twice as much as needed and provide some margin of safety...
Though it was originally slated to last no longer than five years, Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman and FAS Associate Dean of Finance Cheryl Hoffman-Bray informed the council Wednesday that Harvard’s schools would see their endowments docked for up to 25 years...
...This is, after all, a long-term investment for the University and for the FAS,” Kirby wrote in an e-mail. “As Dean Hoffman noted in her presentation, our budgetary plans have assumed the continuation of such a fund, and its effect on our truly discretionary income is small...
...what in particular would be affected, Mendelsohn said Berman and Hoffman did not go into specifics. However, he pointed to several areas that have recently had to tighten their belts and said the officials gave no sign that relief was in sight...
...soft hiring freeze on staff, implemented last winter will continue indefinitely, Berman and Hoffman told the council...