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Horowitz’s research began in the late 70s, when Frank Drake, the founder of modern SETI, helped Horowitz obtain funding to do SETI research in Puerto Rico. Not long after, Horowitz went to the West Coast, partially at the behest of NASA, and developed his own project: Suitcase SETI...
After a test run of 250 stars at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that turned up nothing, Horowitz brought Suitcase SETI back to Harvard, and in 1983, Project Sentinel was launched. Project Sentinel utilized an 84-foot steerable radio telescope equipped with a renovated Suitcase SETI, located at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass...
...Hillary Clinton team prefers-for a few more days, at least-to do the math differently. With her win in Puerto Rico and a net gain of 24 delegates over the weekend in party rules meetings, Clinton is on the verge of eeking out a tiny moral victory: unless a torrent of superdelegates emerges in the next 48 hours, she will have deprived Obama from clinching the nomination before the official end of the primary season...
...Instead, she may try another argument-that by making the race so close, she's earned the right to be Obama's running mate. No sooner had this weekend's battles of Michigan, Florida and Puerto Rico come to an end than whispers began to trickle in once more that Clinton will continue to try to pile up marginal delegates to compel Obama to consider her for the number two spot. "There are a bunch of women out there," said one member of her team, "who won't vote for him otherwise...
...recount, the 1960s fight for civil rights - and, in an even bigger stretch, the election standoff in Zimbabwe. But the meeting is Clinton's last remaining glimmer of hope to catch Obama, who currently leads the race by around 160 pledged delegates, with only three primaries remaining, in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota...