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...Lynn Tong, who attended high school in Brookline for a year before coming to Harvard, agrees students here are "less disciplined." But she says she "got used to the American way" and observes, "It's good that you can get friendly with teachers here. In China, you're just supposed to listen...
Though none regret coming here, Bing, Lynn, and Jia Chang all say the transition hasn't been easy. Bing and Jia, who have no family in the U.S., are occasionally homesick, but say calling each other and Lynn often helps. "Sometimes we have to talk Chinese--we get desperate," Bing jokes...
Still, for all his extracurricular interests, including a young biologist named Lynn Alexander whom he would shortly marry, Sagan was a highly productive researcher. As always, he was iconoclastic. Although most astronomers were studying the more distant realms of the stars and galaxies, Sagan opted for the nearby planets, under the tutelage of the late Gerard Kuiper. He realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American...
...Harvard, Sagan was a highly popular lecturer, talking about such things as UFOs (he debunked them) and the idea of extraterrestrial life (he promoted it). He was divorced from Lynn (after two children, Dorian, now 21, and Jeremy, 19) and married to Linda Salzman, an artist. His career appeared to be taking off. But in spite of his professional flair, Harvard never offered him tenure. So, in 1968, when Cornell University beckoned with an offer to set up a laboratory of planetary studies, he promptly accepted it and moved to rural Ithaca...
...male corporate attorney in Detroit firmly said: "There is not a 29-year-old in the country who is qualified to have risen as she did in only 15 months." And some women faulted Cunningham for not being more sensitive to the delicacies of being a female executive. Said Lynn Long, a vice president of Houghton Mifflin, the Boston publishers: "A woman executive can protect herself simply by exercising great discretion and being above reproach." Discretion, however, has not been a conspicuous commodity at Bendix in recent weeks...