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...Hawking has teamed up with his daughter, Lucy Hawking, to write George's Secret Key to the Universe, the first in a trilogy of novels directed at the fertile minds of children themselves. In an interview via e-mail, Stephen Hawking, who holds Sir Isaac Newton's former chair in mathematics at Cambridge University, explains: "The aim of the book is to encourage children's sense of wonder at the universe. We want them to look outward. Only then will they be able to make the right decisions to safeguard the future of the human race...
...crack one-liners at their expense allow them to let their guard down, clown around and, most importantly, connect with some voters who otherwise aren't paying any attention to the campaign. "The more people get to know Hillary, the more they like her," explained Clinton campaign spokesman Isaac Baker, optimistically, on why she makes the talk show rounds...
...tech transfer field, Harvard’s hopes rest on the shoulders of Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who arrived here in 2005. Before that, Kohlberg led tech transfer efforts at Tel Aviv University and at New York University School of Medicine. In that last post, he commanded a salary of nearly $1.3 million, making him the highest-paid administrator in academia, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...looking forward to spending many years sleeping on floors with no money,” says Isaac H. Ravishankara ’07 of his immediate future. But his friends believe he will thrive in his creative projects in the real world as much as he did at Harvard. Ravishankara’s online video shorts have gained him minor fame, and his movies have been featured on MTV’s college network. Now, as he heads out into the real world, he’s set on making it in the film industry. This year?...
...It’s hard to see where that would generate any built-in conflict of interests, as one of our interests is to bring these discoveries to the public.” Whitesides was traveling out of the country and could not be reached for comment yesterday. Isaac T. Kohlberg, whom the University appointed in November 2004 to the position of associate provost and chief technology development officer in order to enhance tech transfer efforts, was also unavailable for comment when contacted yesterday. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...