Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirteen times during their eight-week stay, a specially outfitted DC-8 took off from the Presidente Ibanez Airport, twelve miles northeast of Punta Arenas. Often the 40-odd scientists and support crew listed for a given flight had to leave the hotel soon after midnight to prepare the plane and its research instruments. Once airborne, the DC-8 would bank south toward Antarctica, 1,000 miles away, fighting vicious winds before settling into a twelve-hour round-trip flight at altitudes of up to 40,000 ft. Along the way, the instruments continuously collected data on atmospheric gases, airborne...
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, who teaches at the K-School and the Graduate School of Design, estimates that one-half of the former's faculty has gone on one of Heifetz's three-day retreats. Gomez-Ibanez says the seminar helped him understand and appreciate his unusual teaching methods. Of the course's strategy, he says "some things can't be told but have to be experienced...