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...alien civilizations light-years away are sending us messages coded in pulses of light, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering Paul Horowitz ’65 will be one of the first to know. The Planetary Society, a leading non-profit space research organization, announced Tuesday that Horowitz will direct a year-long project to scan the Milky Way for light signals sent by extraterrestrial life using a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. The telescope, which was dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Goes High-Tech in ET Search | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...standards thus far mentioned share something in common: they’re “open” standards. Some of them, such as regulations for the permissible content of gasoline, are codified in law and maintained by the government; others are maintained by non-profit professional groups such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) or the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They’re all available for free: anyone who wants to can go on to the W3C web site and download the full specification for HTML; thus, anyone who wants to can write...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline | Title: Standard Error | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...problem with a pandemic, by definition, is that it strikes everywhere at once. And according to a 2005 report by Trust for America's Health, a non-profit that focuses on disease prevention, few states are prepared to cope with major disease outbreaks on their own. The report found problems at every level: nearly half the states did not adequately track disease outbreaks; hospitals in almost one third of states weren't prepared to cope with a surge in patients; and 21 states did not have sufficient backup supplies to ventilate even 10 additional patients, never mind the thousands that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Disaster-Ready Are We? | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

Catering to mainstream tastes as well as more artistic inclinations, the non-profit institution focuses on only the “highest quality films,” McClung said...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Streep Gets Coolidge Award | 3/24/2006 | See Source »

...separate speech to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences yesterday, the outgoing president said the University “is beginning to take some steps” in the formation of a Harvard institute dedicated to developing methods of evaluating and improving the performance of government, non-profit, and private-sector global health initiatives. School of Public Health officials were unavailable for comment yesterday. According to a copy of his prepared remarks released to The Crimson, Summers said he looks forward to a “mutually valuable partnership with a substantial two-way flow of students, faculty...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Extends A Hand To India | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

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