Word: jeffrey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum/Washington...
...indeed, Harvard Dining Services' point person on ID issues, HDS Access System Administrator Jeffrey B. Cuppett, said yesterday that the use of Crimson Cash throughout the entire University library system is a realistic possibility in the next year...
...with international scientists at a space summit this November. Two unmanned probes blasting off for scientific missions to Mars this November and December will be followed by eight more within a decade. "Congress has tentatively scheduled $100 million a year for ten years for Mars research," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger. "Appropriations like that are always conditional, dependent on future results which may or may not materialize." Kluger says that a discovery of this magnitude tends to generate great enthusiasm and commitment: "It is unlikely that a legislator could make a persuasive argument right now that space exploration is superfluous...
...were probably deposited after the rock was formed, and not left behind by heating and cooling. Also present in the samples are magnetite and iron sulfide, which on Earth are associated with bacterial action. "As the number of solar systems and planets we've discovered increases," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger, "it becomes less and less likely that we are alone in the universe. The major import of this discovery could be the realization that life doesn't have to be an outrageously unlikely assemblage of improbable elements. Perhaps, given light, water and a few rudimentary hydrocarbons life could begin...
...conference drew to a close, Goldin proposed that the President and Congress appropriate more funds to resolve the scientific issues. The announcement and conference may have been the marriage of an intriguing scientific conundrum and a budget crunch. "Obviously NASA is a beleaguered agency," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger. "In the ten years since the Challenger disaster, there has been increasing public awareness of how lean the government financial larder is, and that makes NASA look like a luxury operation. Anything that vindicates space exploration looks good to NASA. By announcing the findings now, NASA permits the scientific community...