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...Oxford Street, behind the Science Center, is slightly less menacing to pedestrians, which is good since you will have to cross it if you wander over to the Harvard University Museums of Natural History. The glass flowers at the Botanical Museum look remarkably lifelike. Be forwarned, however, that a good portion of the specimens were designed to show the effects of various fungal diseases on fruits and vegetables. But, hey, Harvard never promised you a rose garden...
Roger Penrose is hardly the sort of man who would normally excite much popular interest, let alone controversy. The shy, somewhat rumpled and unfailingly polite Oxford professor, 58, has spent most of his career spinning theories in the most abstruse areas of mathematics and physics. His contributions to both disciplines have earned him a sterling reputation among his colleagues. But his pursuits have been so far removed from the everyday world that few people outside his fields of expertise were even aware of his existence...
...best-selling book by Oxford physicist Roger Penrose says the laws of nature forbid it -- and that riles artificial-intelligence researchers...
...student-teacher ratio and a high-powered academic program that includes four years of English, three of mathematics and foreign language, and two of science, history and fine arts. "We teach people how to think critically," says Marvin Shagam, a popular instructor who studied at Oxford and is trained in judo. "We don't coach for the SATs." The fees for all this are steep: tuition next year will be $16,000, although 44 of the school's 227 students currently receive financial...
Next year, Robertson plans to study 18thcentury English literature at Oxford University."I like reading 18th century novels that featurethe dilemma of women's choice of partner," sheexplains...