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Members of the presidential search committee met yesterday afternoon with Harvard’s alumni overseers. But after a closed-doors session inside Loeb House, it appeared last night that the University was not ready to name a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers.In recent days, the committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the presidency, according to two sources familiar with the search committee’s activities. If the committee has agreed on a president, Faust would likely be the search panel’s choice, according to the two individuals...
Inspired by the elegant aerodynamics of insects, Wood, assistant professor of electrical engineering, is working on creating small flying robots that he hopes will someday serve in search and rescue missions...
...example, during a search and rescue mission for a nuclear disaster, where humans rescuers would be put in danger, hundreds of these MAVs could be sent into the area to search for survivors. With the ability to maneuver into small spaces within the debris, MAVs would be able to detect carbon dioxide gas and report the location of the survivors...
...Eventually we want the MAVs to be so inexpensive that they would be disposable. Even if most of them are destroyed in the search process, the mission would still be considered a success,” Wood says...
...development, but save for a sunflower image painted on its tile wall, "his" place looks identical to those around it. We ring the doorbell, but no one shows. A security guard gives us a dirty look, so we buzz off. Our options dwindling, we decide to call off our search. Perhaps we should have followed the lead of Nippon Television's Norihisa Kabaya, whom we had run into earlier that morning. He was patrolling a boardwalk near the black sand of Hac Sa beach, video camera rolling while his translator waved a blown-up photograph of the smiling Kim Jong...