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Giovanni Fazio, who is also a lecturer on Astronomy, is the only Harvard scientist with a definite slot for his experiment--on space lab II, the shuttle's 22nd flight, now scheduled for 1984. Fazio's proposal is a telescope designed to detect regions in the galaxy where stars are being born. On earth such a telescope is cluttered by infrared rays from "atmospheric junk," Fazio explains. An infrared telescope on the space shuttle, however, would be expected to collect more accurate and complete data...
...fourth Harvard scientist with a space shuttle experiment, William Parkinson, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics, could not be reached for comment on his project--a solar and terrestrial atmosphere spectrometer. Spectrometers are used to analyze the composition of gases by the unique characteristics of the light emitted by each element
Says NASA'S James Pollack, a planetary scientist: "It's a very real possibility...
Through age and exposure, The Wrong Man had become The Best Man. It was a role that life had carved in Fonda, the quiet son of a pleasant, rigorous Christian Scientist family in Omaha in the century's first decade...
...power," but Yale Historian Peter Gay dismisses him: "He doesn't do any research, he just goes on instinct." Anthropologist Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study attempts a new classification: "He has become a kind of impossible object: a nonhistorical historian, an anti-humanistic human scientist. He is what any French savant seems to need to be these days: elusive...