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Recent events at the University of Massachusetts have proven him a valuable prophet. The decision at UMass last week to hire Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis and two other radical economists, leaves Harvard with only one lonely radical economist, who is skeptical of what one pioneer can do on a deserted frontier...
While scientists debate the existence of the robot vehicle supposedly sending messages from an extraterrestrial civilization, the U.S. is launching a message-bearing spacecraft of its own. Scheduled to blast off this week, a second Pioneer spacecraft will begin the two-year, 620-million-mile journey to the planet Jupiter-and beyond. Pioneer 11 is an almost identical twin of its predecessor, Pioneer 10, which will pass close enough to Jupiter in December to send back pictures and data about the atmosphere, strong magnetic field and puzzling red spot of the giant planet. Because the new craft, like Pioneer...
...company's principal backers is Pioneer Lands Corp. Last week a spokesman for the venture capital partnership said: "They have enough money for several months. There is a squeeze, and orders are to control costs very tightly. There is an aggressive desire to form a partnership with a strong company, preferably a publishing company, and snatch this thing out of the jaws of failure...
Wesley's oral biography traced and highlighted events in the life of the "pioneer in the rescue of black people..., the literary knight with a plumed pen" when Du Bois was one of only two blacks attending Harvard in the late...
Howard Hathaway Aiken, professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus and a pioneer in computer research, died in his sleep early Wednesday morning in St. Louis...