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...which is formed out of a partnership between the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Smithsonian Institute's Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), is dedicated, according to the information on its Web site, "to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the Universe...
...Dylan test. Build two artificial-intelligence machines exactly alike and load them with exactly the same software. Then put some Bob Dylan music for them to listen to. When one machine hates it and the other loves it, you have some real thinking going on. DELIO DESTRO Sao Paulo, Brazil Via E-mail...
...Child Welfare Administration, homeless shelters and the Legal Aid Society--even though they were unable to save Elisa's life--try to imagine what is taking place in countries like mine, where even a pale shadow of that support system is an unreachable dream. DOMINGOS FERNANDO REFINETTI Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...Sao-Wiwa was hardly a violent threat to the state of Nigeria, but his criticism of oil companies endangered the cash flow to the ruling junta. He had actively campaigned against the environmental destruction on his tribal land caused by Shell Oil Company. As a result of Saro-Wiwa's efforts, Shell ended oil mining in the author's homeland, much to the dismay of the military junta...
Although Shell's chief executive did send a personal to Nigeria's leaders to spare Sao-Wiwa's life, it was clearly a token gesture. As long as companies such as Shell continue to support the military junta by mining Nigerian oil, and, as long as institutions like Harvard invest in Shell, human rights abuses such as Saro-Wiwa's unjust execution will continue...