Word: lymans
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...slowing the process. A country with civilian nuclear plants could choose to reprocess spent atomic fuel into plutonium, which can also be used for bombmaking. That would require the construction of a separate reprocessing facility. You need to be smart enough to actually design a weapon, but as Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists points out, "If you can make fissile material, you can make a warhead...
...Crimson bragged about their fancy bicycles. Economist Emmanuel Farhi says his bike is “very powerful,” and physicist Gerald Gabrielse notes that his is made of titanium. Still others, such as economist Matthew Nunn, mathematician Bret J. Benesh, English professor Elizabeth D. Lyman, and political scientists Glyn Morgan and Cindy Skach said they used Zipcars when they needed mechanized transport. “Nearly everyone I know uses them,” Morgan says of his Cambridge neighbors. The Zipcar service allows people to rent cars quickly for an hourly rate...
...Asian American Association, the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Black Men’s Forum, the Black Students Association, Concilio Latino, Native Americans at Harvard College, the Society of Arab Students, and the South Asian Association. The eight members of Smith’s faculty advisory committee are Lyman Professor of Biology Andrew A. Biewener, Professor of the History of Science Allan M. Brandt, Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman, Psychology Department Chair Stephen M. Kosslyn, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, Co-Master of Mather...
...then two top academics are ushered in to brief the assembled leaders on trends in energy supply, patterns of urbanization or intellectual-property rights. The discussion can last until the evening, when Hu sums things up, though he reportedly rarely expresses his own opinion. "It's amazing," says Alice Lyman Miller, a China scholar at Stanford University and editor of China Leadership Monitor, "the thought of the entire Politburo sitting around and listening to academics for hours...
...chair of organismic and evolutionary biology, Andrew A. Biewener, echoed Knowles’ sentiments and reiterated his call for growth in the sciences. In terms of investing in the sciences, “compared to peer institutions, Harvard lags,” said Biewener, who is the Lyman professor of biology. In his letter, Knowles—a chemist—wrote that many people, including the University’s top governing bodies, have concluded that “FAS has systematically underinvested in science.” But one humanity professor said that there is concern that...