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...robot deployed in Antarctica to look for meteorites has returned in triumph. Nomad, a joint project sponsored by the Robotic Institute of Carnegie-Mellon and NASA's Space Telerobotics Program (bet you didn't know they had one), set out on its own to look for space rocks stuck in ice and came back with three of them. Scientists hope Nomad's success bodes well for robotic exploration of other planets. You know what they say about Antarctica: if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere...
...Schama, a professor of history and Mellon professor of the social sciences at Harvard before leaving to teach at Columbia in 1993, has made a career out of smoothly blending history and art history. In his most recent book, _Landscape and Memory_ (1995), Schama sought to explain what nature and geography has meant to culture, myth, art, and consciousness. In _Dead Certainties_ (1991), a book of two stories about the early United States, he analyzed the political and cultural significance of a painting by Benjamin West. (The other part of the book, "Death of a Harvard Man," dealt with...
Rudenstine also said he has many suitors in the foundation world--he served as executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for three years before accepting the Harvard presidency...
Schwartz is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and attended Julliard while in high school...
...wanted to check out the alternatives. My first stop was the Union of Concerned Scientists, where I met two, well, concerned scientists. Margaret Mellon and Jane Rissler have spent years studying food safety, and they've got a lot of doubts about biotech. I asked them what I could do to avoid gene-altered foods this year. They said it would take some work. No one knows exactly which of the thousands of products for sale use gene-altered crops like corn or soy. It could be more than half. They said I'd do best staying away from processed...