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...explore this solar system. The mission will cost just $63 million. But the results may well be historic. If the probe confirms the presence of water ice at the Moon's south pole, the next era of space exploration may be at hand: missions launched from a manned Moon outpost that could drill for its own water and thus be self-sustaining. That would indeed be a pretty big step for mankind...
What Rudenstine's remark--buried 12 pages into a sweeping 14 page speech--doesn't reveal is that the first such outpost could be only months away. The University has drafted rules for such an endeavor, and Rudenstine has assembled a committee to approve any proposals...
...guidelines require that schools discuss their plans for outposts with the Academic Advisory Group, that any outpost be open to faculty from other schools and that all activities conducted at them be in keeping with Harvard standards, sources...
Currently Harvard's only international outpost--if even such a term is appropriate--is Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy. Housed in a sixteenth-century villa and surrounded by 75 acres of Tuscan farmland, I Tatti is home to the University's Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. University officials say that the outposts being considered won't compare...
Harvard undergraduates met up with students from the University of Massachusetts, MIT and area high schools at the Boston outpost of Guess? for Saturday's noisy protest of the labor used in manufacturing Guess? products. The Harvard students were members of the Phillips Brooks House Association's Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). know for organizing recent protests at Harvard Business School...