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...Hurricane Georges rampaged through the Caribbean, Maldonado spent last week worrying about her family back home in Trujilllo Alto, Puerto Rico...
According to the Harvard Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Web page (http://mc.harvard.edu/seti/), the search first began in 1978 with scientists listening to signals transmitted from a 1,000-foot dish in Arecibo, Puerto Rico...
Benzan, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, is Latino, but also considers himself black...
...same way flight controllers look for commercial airliners: with radar? Realizing that extremely powerful radar would be needed to bounce a signal off so distant a target, he called on Donald Campbell, the chief scientist at the world's largest radiotelescope, the 1,000-ft. dish at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Campbell agreed to try, although he estimated that the power of the returned signal would be about a billionth of a watt...
...Puerto Rico's legislature is likely to vote tomorrow to authorize a plebiscite on future relations with the U.S. Faced with three options -- statehood, independence or a continuation of commonwealth status -- Governor Pedro Rossello and congressional Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of fully joining the union. But Republican concerns over adding a state that's likely to vote Democrat mean that we probably won't be adding a 51st star anytime soon...