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Four Harvard professors, including. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson and professor of Physics David Nelson, were named as recipients of MacArthur Fellow ships, one of the most prestigious academic awards granted in the United States...
...advent of the computer has changed all that. Led by Astrophysicist Jerry Nelson, a team at the University of California designed an unorthodox mirror that will not be a continuous concave surface, like Hale's, but 36 hexagonal pieces of specially shaped glass, each 6 ft. across and 3 in. thick; the segments will be fit together and will move in concert to act as one giant parabolic mirror. That harmony is possible only with the aid of a computer- controlled sensing and positioning system, which will realign the components 100 times a second by as little...
...universe, you are paging back in the history books, as it were, to Time Zero." Once they reach that ineffable edge, the scientists may better understand where the universe came from, and where it is going. Or they may end up more baffled than before. Says Nelson: "Probably the most exciting things we'll discover are the things we haven't thought...
...Every investment is a prison bar holding Nelson Mandela," said Jackson, refering to the leader of the African National Congress imprisoned in South Africa since...
...than Stephen Biko and Bishop Luthuli did in their whole lifetimes? Does he think he has more experience in the matter than Bishop Tutu, who last month said in Memorial Church that investing in torture and the wholesale destruction of black family life? Are we to believe that if Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress who has been imprisoned on an island for twenty years, would just take a break from the rockpile and think as much as Derek Bok has about South Africa, the ANC would stop demanding that Harvard divest? These are Bok's critics...