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...Piper Archer N8304L to work each day at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and have been doing so for 13 years ["CEOs as Pilots," Dec. 23, 2002]. At 66, I am instrument rated, and I have no trouble staying current. Flying to work doesn't shave any time off of my commute--which takes two hours each way, by car or by plane--but it makes the trip something to look forward to, rather than the mind-numbing experience it used to be. Flying is special in ways that go far beyond the shallow "I always dreamed...
...what do professional ethics say about involving oneself in a story like this? It depends on whom you ask. One position was succinctly stated by Los Angeles Times reporter and former Crimson Managing Editor Joe Matthews ’94 at his old high school in Pasadena, Calif. last year. “There are no ethics in journalism,” Matthews claimed, a comment which made the local newspaper and caused some consternation among the students who thought journalists had an obligation to be members of their communities as well as reporters on it. But Matthews...
...clarify what exactly a Quantum Cellular Automata Architect does, Spotnitz answered, “A Quantum Cellular Automata Architect designs circuit patterns with Quantum Cellular Automata.”) “I was surrounded by PhDs at NASA’s JPL [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena,” the chemistry concentrator explains. “And I had only taken AP physics. I had been thinking about studying brain science or being a doctor, but I wanted to try something different. So I picked NASA. I figured it was a highly productive place...
DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, Lyrical, Award-Winning Author Who downplayed her social status as heiress to a railroad fortune and won a devoted critical and commercial following with three books, all published after she turned 73; in Pasadena, Calif. Known for her sharply beautiful, economical prose--she could labor over a sentence for an hour--Doerr based much of her writing on time spent with her family in Mexico, where her husband ran a mining business. She returned to college at 65 on a dare from her son, studied creative writing and went on to publish the 1984 novel Stones...
...DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, American author who achieved literary fame at the age of 73 after her first novel won the 1984 National Book Award; in Pasadena, California. Doerr's Stones for Ibarra was a poignant semi-biographical tale of a couple whose new life in Mexico quickly becomes overshadowed by the husband's dis-covery that he has leukemia...