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Last week a University of Colorado scientist announced that he had recently led an expedition on that grueling trek. Reason: to launch a new study of what could be one of the magnificent "Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...
...Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in Tyngsboro, Mass., opened in 1979 to offer the first full-time master of software engineering degree. Started by An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Inc., the hugely successful computer company in nearby Lowell, the institute aims to educate a new breed of executive scientist who can create models of order in the individualistic and chaotic computer-software field. Wang believes that its integrated regimen of planning, design and testing of new systems, guided by written instructions, can be an answer. Set up in a former Marist Brothers seminary, the institute is an independent nonprofit school...
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. Arthur Fry, 53, a 3M chemical engineer, used to get annoyed at how pieces of paper that marked his church hymnal always fell out when he stood up to sing. He knew that Spencer Silver, a * scientist at 3M, had accidentally discovered an adhesive that had very low sticking power. Normally that would be bad, but for Fry it was good. He figured that markers made with the adhesive might stick lightly to something and would come off easily. Since 3M allows employees to spend 15% of their office time on independent projects, he began working...
...Voyager whipped past the mysterious blue-green planet, soaring as close as 50,679 miles to its cloudtops at 42,143 m.p.h., streams of new data from the craft poured into the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We're quite excited," said J.P.L. Project Scientist Edward Stone. "It's the crescendo of discovery...
...What we have seen thus far has been spectacular," said Ellis Miner, Voyager's deputy project scientist. "What has remained unseen to this point is going to turn out even better." For as it swung past Uranus, Voyager took thousands of pictures and gathered reams of scientific data, accumulating information faster than its systems could process and transmit it toward the earth. The unsent information, stored on magnetic tape, was to be gradually beamed to J.P.L. over the next several days. In these transmissions, scientists expected to find, among other things, images of more tiny moons...