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...many scientists, just watching the data come in is a pleasure all by itself. "Kepler is working so amazingly well," says Berkeley's Geoff Marcy, a champion planet hunter in his own right and a member of the Kepler science team, "that the light curves [that is, the dips in light caused by transiting planets] look like they come from a textbook, not a real instrument...
Senate President Therese Murray—who had earlier forced Galluccio to resign as chair of the Higher Education Committee and a member of six other committees, according to the Globe—did not publicly ask Galluccio to resign from the Senate in light of Monday’s sentence. In a short statement, Murray said the Senate will discuss its response to the situation when it meets on Wednesday...
Murray had announced Monday that the Senate would discuss its response to Galluccio’s sentencing when it meets Wednesday. According to the Boston Globe, the Senate can recommend that a member be censured, suspended, or expelled—had the last motion been taken, Galluccio would have been the first senator to be expelled since...
...powders, liquids, thin pieces of plastic or anything that resembles skin. Nor can they detect any explosives concealed internally. Some politicians and aviation experts have questioned whether the scanners would have detected the powder that Abdulmutallab carried on board Northwest Flight 253. Ben Wallace, a British Conservative Parliament member who was involved in a defense firm's testing of the technology, said over the weekend that the scanners probably wouldn't have picked up the powder. But proponents of the system disagree. Dutch Interior Minister Guusje ter Horst told a news conference last week that he believed the technology would...
Even following the attempted attack on the Northwest flight, critics remain resolutely opposed to the machines. "A knee-jerk reaction which sees body scanners, with their known drawbacks of passenger delays and privacy threats, as a magic solution is a bad move," says Sarah Ludford, a British member of the European Parliament. "In the Christmas Day case, as in the 9/11 and 7/7 [London] bombings, the failure was not to join the dots of available information." Advocates of civil liberties agree. Simon Davies, director of the London-based human-rights watchdog Privacy International, describes the scanners as a "fashionable...