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...ambitious mission: to scout Mars and probe Phobos, one of its two tiny moons. Far below at the sprawling complex, technicians swarmed over a sister ship that is scheduled to be launched this week on a similar mission. Exulted Roald Sagdeyev, director of the Soviet Space Research Institute: "Now we can go and drink champagne...
...Among the concerns raised by the proposed mission, she wrote, are the "potential for spying, for technology transfer, for interference in our political system, for the 'hostage holding' effect it would have on our space program and on our future." Her conclusion: "A complex, expensive, 25-year-long joint research program is like a marriage. It should be entered into soberly, advisedly, for better or for worse -- and only after a very long engagement during which trust is built and loyalty tested...
Cool off at the the National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts' Ice Cream Extravaganza this Sunday at the Cambridge Ballroom in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge. From 1 to 4 p.m. you can make a $10 donation for kidney research and sample as many as 10 flavors from gourmet ice cream vendors from around the nation. An additional $5 donation gets you 10 more servings. Call 326-7225 or 1-800-542-4001 for more info...
Minorities currently comprise 6.8 percent of Harvard's senior faculty and 11.7 of its junior faculty, figures which are comparable to other major research universities. But the MSA report charged that Harvard includes Asian-Americans and foreign nationals in its count of minority professors, a strategy which they said falsely inflates the numbers...
...interested in what the record has beenhere--what has been the pattern of hiring of womenand minority candidates and what is going on atother comparable institutions, said Lecturer inEconomics Jeffrey S. Wolcowitz, who is serving asa staff member of the committee and will helpVerba research this summer