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University President Lawrence H. Summers wasn’t the only Harvard official to climb aboard a jet and fly to a vacation destination the weekend before his resignation. While the soon-to-be outgoing president enjoyed a five-day ski trip in Utah, two members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing board—convened in Sarasota, Fla., for a secret rendezvous with the man they hoped would temporarily take the University’s helm: Derek C. Bok. Bok, a former president who led the University from 1971 to 1991, wrote...
...flipped on the television in my bedroom the other day and quickly became convinced that a foreign dignitary was paying the Bay State an official visit. On the screen, a spiffy blue and white jet dubbed the “Spirit of America” landed and, flanked by numerous officials in suits and somber State Troopers flaunting crisp, fresh-pressed uniforms, its door unfurled. Was the President of Zambia paying Mitt Romney a visit? Was Pope Benedict in the plane? I waited in rapt anticipation for the individual deemed worthy of such a triumphal greeting to emerge. Imagine...
...office has forced them to move to another venue. I'm not sure I'm going to be the most popular man at the party." Far better to be a father of the bride like Chopra, who by 10 p.m. is onstage singing John Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane to his guests. "It's the Indian way," he says, sashaying through a crowd of photographers. "This...
...nearly doubled their rate of flow over the past five years, to about 8 miles a year, dumping icebergs and meltwater into the already rising ocean faster than anyone expected. "In 1996 Greenland was losing about 100 cu km of ice per year," says Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead author of the study, which he presented at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, Mo. "This year it will lose more than twice as much." By comparison, he says, in 1996 Greenland dumped 90 times as much...
...interesting political note: Eric Rignot, the lead author of the Greenland study and an accompanying report in Science magazine, works for NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the glaciers? speedup was detected with a satellite). Just a couple of weeks ago, another NASA scientist named James Hansen claimed he?d been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut...