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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history of photojournalism is a saga of technological progress, commercial greed and individual heroism. It includes a shocking number of wars and tragedies -- events with the visual power that compels people to buy newspapers and magazines. But the development of news photography is also the story of how cameras became smaller and film more sensitive, so that journalists could capture the look of the factory, the dance hall, the dictator's study, the sharecropper's cabin and other venues of daily life. These are all here, the momentous and the mundane alike...
...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...
Science does not progress through revolutionary discoveries alone. Important advances also occur as ingenious experimenters devise ever more clever methods for increasing the accuracy of their observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a high art. "It's nice to know that this type of work can be appreciated," said one of the recipients, distinguished Harvard University physicist Norman Ramsey. Upon hearing the news, Ramsey, an athletic 74-year-old who recently returned from a trek in Nepal, admits that he was startled...
...have recourse to the Blodgett Pool are aware of my frequent presence. Most change lanes when they witness my wide-angled progress and tortoise-rate speed. On my part, nothing has troubled me less than sharing the pool with the young women who arrive with their even more youthful offspring and thus escape for an hour or so into exceptionally vigorous relaxation. It is my strong impression that their young are free from any serious risk and are otherwise of no trouble or embarrassment to anyone. I plead strongly for a reconsideration of the rule which precludes what is surely...
...unrealistic to expect that Harvard alone can solve completely the nation's or even its own shortage of minority and women academics. Larger institutional changes--such as tax incentives and loan exemption for those embarking on academic careers--will be integral to real progress...