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Other philosophies differed. "You throw up what you see," Syracuse men's and women's diving Coach Jeff Keck said. "It's hard to get zeroed in on a score...
Instantaneous scoring is also important, Keck believes. "The differences in the scoring is what makes it a contest," he said...
...program, which Wilkins has headed since last spring, was formed in 1981 with a $275,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to encourage innovative approaches to teaching legal ethics, which bridge the gap between the academy and the profession...
...paltry million can get you some little pieces. Bill Cosby and his wife Camille donated $20 million to Atlanta's Spelman College, a private liberal arts school for black women; most of the money was allocated to the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center. In 1985 the W.M. Keck Foundation gave $70 million to Caltech, which now has a telescope called Keck I and, for $72 million more, will soon have Keck II. Publishing magnate Walter Annenberg has the University of Pennsylvania School for Communication named after him ($75 million), though what he got for his generous $50 million gift...
Between this Scylla and Charybdis, mirror designers are charting a variety of bold, new courses. By designing the Keck Telescope mirror as a mosaic of small segments, each the size of a dining-room table, astronomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley was able to make his mirrors both rigid and thin. But to provide images of pinprick sharpness, each segment must be kept perfectly aligned with its neighbors, a task handled by an elaborate electronic network...