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...generations of medical students during his more than 30 years at Beth Israel. He was known to ask difficult questions during rounds, but was beloved by his colleagues and students. “In every way Frank exemplified the ideal physician, investigator, teacher, and scholar. He was a superb scientist with an incisive ability to probe the essence of any research question,” Mark L. Zeidel, chair of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel, wrote in an e-mail sent to hospital faculty. “Above all else, Frank was an inspiring teacher and mentor...
...solar system’s little siblings is even more like our own than researchers had previously thought, according to a new study co-authored by a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...Holography was invented in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian scientist working in London who discovered that reflected light could be captured and reconstructed to create the illusion of three-dimensional images. (He won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery.) Gabor, however, lacked the technology to perfect holograms; double images sometimes appeared at once and were not viewable. In the 1960s, Emmett Leith added lasers to the equation and rendered the first stable holograms - which included a toy train that astounded other scientists when they...
...Some 7000 police have been deployed to maintain order, and a couple of protestors have been injured in the chaos. On Wednesday, hundreds surrounded the hotel where Chen was dining and refused to disperse until 2AM, when Chen could finally leave. "The protests were to be expected," says political scientist Yang Tai-shuenn at Taiwan's Chinese Culture University. "The Democratic Progressive Party has always had a deep mistrust of the Kuomintang [Ma's party], and the opposition uses mass movements to mobilize the party...
Finally, there are unquestionably theological and racial reasons for the continued alignment of many white Evangelicals with the GOP. "There is a different flavor of Evangelicalism in the South," says political scientist John Green, an expert on religious polling. Obama's gains among Catholics were driven by Latino and white working-class Catholics for whom the economy trumped all other issues. But for lower-income Evangelicals in Southern states, that wasn't enough. Even in states that Obama carried, like Virginia and North Carolina, his percentage of the white Evangelical vote was much lower than in the Rust Belt...