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...went on to work extensively in the world of professional lighting. His expertise was put to use for varied venues such as the original Woodstock festival, Boston Ballet productions, and the New England Aquarium, where he designed lights to encourage penguins to mate.Symonds was also a senior research scientist at a research corporation for ten years, and patented an original theatre lighting system with a friend. He is survived by his brother, Robin Symonds. —Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...resigns before the election, Stroger and his allies would be afraid that the Board would pick someone who might like the job and outmaneuver to beat Todd in November," says University of Illinois -Chicago political scientist Dick Simpson, who himself is a former Chicago alderman. That temporary replacement would likely have a familiar name himself: John Daley, the No. 2 most powerful member of the County Board and the brother of Mayor Richard Daley. "No one is breaking the rules as they're written here, but they are breaking faith with the Democratic process," Simpson says...
...left out in the cold before the next election, scheduled for October. Some are already bailing out: Wissanu Krea-ngam, one of six Deputy Prime Ministers, resigned last week, saying he wants to return to academia. "It's a sinking ship, but slowly," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University...
...heroic scenario: the explosion of the doomed planet Krypton, the miraculous escape of the infant son of a Kryptonian scientist, the discovery of the baby's spaceship by an elderly couple near the Midwestern town of Smallville. And the gradual revelations of the child's superhuman strength, the foster parents' exhortation that he "must use it to assist humanity," the youth's adoption of a dual identity--the mild-mannered, blue-suited newspaper reporter, Clark Kent, and the red-caped, blue-haired Superman, the man of steel ... [He] is a figure who somehow manages to embody the best qualities...
Symonds was also a senior research scientist at a research corporation for ten years, and patented an original theatre lighting system with a friend...