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Although astronomers have been expecting to detect the presence of water vapor in the atmospheres of nearly all of the known extrasolar planets, most of these 200 or so planets orbit too closely to their parent star for observations to be made easily...
...develop his models, Barman used a technique called transmission spectroscopy, which examines the light from a parent star as it passes through the outer reaches of a planet’s atmosphere. By analyzing the absorption patterns of the star’s light, he was able to deduce the molecules present in the planetary atmosphere...
...help make higher education more accessible to low-income students--it's set to host a conference that addresses the topic this month--word broke that a financial-aid officer at the school, as well as at least two counterparts at other colleges, allegedly owned stock in the parent company of a lender they had been recommending to students. The officials were placed on leave pending internal investigations. Meanwhile, financial-aid directors at three more schools were accused of getting consulting fees and other payments from the same lender, which they too had been touting to their students...
...rules started changing again in the late 1960s, when New York City decentralized its school system and allowed all parents--including illegal immigrants--to vote in school-board elections. (The practice ended with the dissolution of school boards in 2003.) Any parent in Chicago can still vote for local school-council members. The city doesn't track noncitizen voting, but a district spokesman says turnout...
...editors: Re: “Harvard Lags in Grad Parent Aid,” news, Apr. 12. Angela Sun’s article on Harvard grad schools’ lack of support for students expecting a child was a hard-hitting piece, bringing up a human rights, gender equality, and health care issue that has long been ignored by the Harvard administration. Where are the services for expecting students? Harvard is unabashedly pro-choice and through its many departments offers abortion services, funding elective abortions through the University Health Services (UHS) health plan. And yet when it comes to services...