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...that is an illusion. The mirror is really a pool of liquid mercury in a shallow wood container. A touch would send ripples racing across its surface, and it must always aim straight up to retain its curvature. As the container is slowly rotated on a turntable; making one revolution every six seconds, the mercury rises gently toward the edges and dips in the middle, the way coffee does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid...
...different from that of Lawrence H. Summers. Kagan has been praised for her consensus-building successes at the Law School, most notably the unanimous approval of the school’s curricular overhaul this past fall. But she was appointed to her present post by Summers, who appeared to retain the support of many Law School faculty members through the final days of his presidency...
Most of the investigators—including well over a dozen at Harvard—retain their academic posts at their home universities while working off Hughes’ largess...
...family and playing at the highest level, Markgraf still found time to work with a young Harvard squad. After the departure of stellar goalkeeper Katie Shields ’06 and her record-setting eleven shutouts in 2005, freshmen defenders had to learn quickly this past season to retain the team’s standard for strong defensive play. Working with Markgraf helped speed up this transition. “She has really helped us lay out our defensive strategy,” freshman defender Lizzy Nichols said in October. “She was really key in that beginning...
...They don't want to be party to trafficking in stolen material," he says. Often, though, it can be difficult even for seasoned dealers to determine what's been stolen. No more than 3% of the documents the federal government creates are important enough for the National Archives to retain them. And the Archives itself wasn't created until 1934. Before that, individual federal departments kept their records and many of the agencies were sloppy, letting retired officials take the important ones home so the material never got to the Archives in the first place. Presidential signatures can command high...