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Unless the Docket Committee finds his filing to be "clearly without merit," Harvard procedure calls for the formation of a three-member ad hoc grievance panel to probe the associate professor's allegations...
...looks as though they will. On Feb. 6 a remarkable space probe called Stardust is scheduled to take off for a January 2004 encounter with Comet Wild (pronounced Vilt) 2. With a tennis racquet-size collector, Stardust will snatch dust particles from the comet's tail as it flies by and then, in an audacious interplanetary maneuver, return to parachute its precious cargo to Earth two years later...
...other instruments had to be light, but the collector had to be ingenious. Although the probe will loop two times around the sun to help it match orbits with the comet, Stardust and Wild 2 will still shoot past each other at nearly 4 miles per second, 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet. In order to catch dust particles without disintegrating them, Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Peter Tsou first thought of making a trap out of Styrofoam; he figured dust would bury itself harmlessly inside. Unfortunately, says Tsou, "cosmic dust particles are so small that on Styrofoam...
...probe centers on HIID's work in Russia earlier in the decade, when its experts were hired to help the emerging democracy adapt to a capitalist economy. During these years, Harvard worked closely with pro-Western Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais...
Melton said the genomics center presents aunique opportunity because its research will beless "applied" than other work in the field, whichis usually geared toward combating sicknesses.Research at the new center will allow Harvardscientists to probe the entire human genome andlook at how it evolves and responds to disease...