Word: hugheses
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Attention, NASA: if you're looking for three humans who like head rushes and can go the distance in uncomfortable machines, try Georgia. In March, Six Flags over Georgia offered a Jeep to the person who rode the Scream Machine, a roller coaster, for the longest time. After 60 days...
DIED. CHARLES ("Bebe") REBOZO, 85, Florida banker and controversial confidant of Richard Nixon; in Miami. Rebozo, who lent Nixon money to buy his San Clemente, Calif., home, also accepted $100,000 in cash in 1970 from Howard Hughes for a private campaign fund for Nixon. He said he returned the...
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been elected one of the nine trustees of the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the second-largest philanthropy in the United States.
Knowles will replace George W. Thorn, a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who played a defining role in the development of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and served at different times as the medical research organization's president, director of research and chairman of trustees.
Founded by aircraft mogul Howard Hughes in1954, the HHMI today employs more than 320scientific investigators--including several NobelPrize winners and 60 members of the NationalAcademy of Sciences--at 72 institutions across theUnited States.