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...exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events. In one photograph, women surround a reinforced truck holding a replica of the Liberty Bell. The bell’s clapper has been fixed, a caption explains, so that the bell (and liberty) can only ring when women can vote. Suffragists drove the bell to every county in Pennsylvania, about 4,000 miles in total. Such events were important in solidifying the movement. “The bell was one of the reasons people paid attention,” said Matthews K. Mmopi...
...team of astronomers, including Harvard’s Massimo Marengo, found a triple-ring system surrounding Epsilon Eridani, the ninth closest star to the Sun. The rings suggest the existence of three or more planets around the star, according to their paper, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal...
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the astronomers, led by Dana Backman of the California-based SETI Institute, discovered the existence of two asteroid belts and an icy outer ring surrounding Epsilon Eridani...
...inner ring appears identical in composition and mass to the asteroid belt in our solar system located between Mars and Jupiter, and the outer one is 20 astronomical units from Epsilon Eridani—about the distance from Uranus to the Sun. The outer ring of icy mini-planets surrounding Epsilon Eridani is similar to the Kuiper Belt that is located just beyond Pluto...
...this election,” says Colin J. Motley ’10. An unlikely statement, perhaps, considering that he is president of the Harvard Republican Club and currently on his way to New Hampshire to campaign for John McCain. But on this day, Motley’s words ring especially true: his candidate is trailing in nearly every national poll, the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has been involved in a number of embarrassing gaffes, and Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, recently announced his endorsement of McCain’s rival, Democrat Barack...