Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judicial and Executive pay be considered separately from that of legislators. In that, he is responding to pressure from judges and the White House, which has expressed concern about the departures of several highly skilled professionals, particularly from NASA and the National Institutes of Health. The latest loss: H. Robert Heller, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, who resigned last week, citing his stagnant...
...during periods of solar maximums, they generally feel somewhat neglected, underfunded and unappreciated, poor cousins to those who observe distant stars and galaxies in the night skies and who consider the sun boring. Then why do solar astronomers persist? "We are driven to an understanding of the sun," says Robert Howard, an astronomer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson. "It is an enormous lab. It is a Rosetta stone for the study of the stars. With other stars, all you have is a pinpoint of light. By understanding more about the sun, we can learn more about the distant...
While all that may be true, says Caltech physicist Robert Leighton, "if the sun didn't have a magnetic field, it would be as dull as most nighttime astronomers think it is." What a difference a field makes. Twisted and stretched by both the sun's rotation and its roiling interior, the magnetic lines of force orchestrate the intriguing solar cycle...
...seismic waves, cannot travel in space because there is no air or other medium to carry them. So when the waves reach the surface of the sun from below, they bounce back into the interior, where the greater heat bends them toward the surface again. The result, says astronomer Robert Noyes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a "sun ringing like a bell, but not one that is being struck by a clapper. Rather, it is vibrating somewhat like a bell suspended in a sandstorm, continuously struck by tiny grains of sand...
...fumes from the spill wafted by the beach-front mansions in Newport, cleanup crews promptly deployed booms to contain as much of the spreading slick as possible. Robert L. Bendick, director of the state department of environmental management, reported that the disaster had attracted so many curiosity seekers that they were hampering cleanup efforts. The department ordered sightseers off the beaches until after the cleanup, and boaters were asked to stay at their docks...