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Indeed, the construction of the first models raised questions for the project's paleontological team, headed by University of Texas at Austin Professor Wann Langston. MacCready's engineers wanted to know how the animal moved and how far forward it could swing its wings. Did it have webbed feet? (Answer: no.) Did it have a tail? (No.) Could its head have been shaped differently from what was previously thought? (Unresolved: only a few fragments of the skull have been recovered.) Each question sent the paleontologists back to examine the fossilized remnants of the giant pterosaur, which were discovered...
...campaign officials meet with the caucus every two weeks. Vernon Jordan, a former Clinton aide and a prominent black lawyer, was named last week to head the campaign's presidential-debate negotiating team. Kerry has added a section to his campaign speech in which he quotes the black poet Langston Hughes, saying, "Let America be America again." The candidate is scheduled to attend the Chicago conference of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition this week, in the first of what will be several appearances before influential black audiences...
...particularly off-base. Without non-traditional language, we wouldn't have Public Enemy rapping "Don't Believe The Hype," Diana Ross singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," or Bob Marley declaring he had "So Much Things to Say." Without slang, we wouldn't have the blues poems of Langston Hughes, or some of the patois-infused verse of Derek Walcott...
What happens to a peace deferred? More than 800 Israeli and 2,200 Palestinian deaths into the second intifada—deaths that scorn Bush’s Roadmap, like Clinton’s efforts at Oslo, Camp David and Taba—Langston Hughes would answer without equivocation. It explodes...
When Charlie Langston, an HBS alumnus who works at a business which distributes solar panels, e-mailed members of the Sustainable Development Club in October 2002, looking for students interested in doing a field study about the feasibility of installing solar panels at Harvard, Cook and Robertson, co-presidents of the club, volunteered...