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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington Post reports that the panel, headed by Stanford physicist Dr. Peter Sturrock and funded by Laurance S. Rockefeller, reviewed 50 years of UFO incidents and urged scientists to overcome the fear of ridicule and research the phenomenon. While the panel's report, to be published Monday, emphasizes that it has found no convincing evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence, it recommends the study of significant physical evidence such as burns, radiation, radar images and the recurring appearance of strange lights. Skeptical? Well, you may want to remember that before the study of meteorites began in earnest, scientists dismissed the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounters of the Scientific Kind | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...time. The Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a stainless-steel chamber filled with 12.5 million gal. of water, lined with sensitive light detectors and located deep underground in an old zinc mine near the city of Takayama, is among the most sensitive instruments of its kind in the world. The physicists who use it are widely recognized as extremely careful experimenters. And, says University of Hawaii physicist John Learned, there wasn't much doubt about what they saw. "It was," he says, "something like a big fish slapping you on the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighing The Universe | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and her partner Dorothy A. Austin are chosen to replace William and Mary Bossert as masters of Lowell House. They are the first same-sex couple to serve as masters of a Harvard House. The next day, physicist Howard Georgi and his wife Ann B. Georgi are chosen to replace John and Judy Dowling as masters of Leverett House...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: 1997-1998 In Review | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...physicist who is well-known for his tofu hot dogs, and the lab manager who is an avid equestrian, the new position in Leverett brings an opportunity to further strengthen the House advising system...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Master Turnovers Reflect Changes in Nature of House Life | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders' advice, upon distillation, condenses into pure common sense...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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