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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search committee seems to have made a wonderful choice. The Palfreys have had a long association with Harvard, Sean is a great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880. The couple first met during a physics class when they were both undergraduate. Their two sons, John and Quentin are both recent graduates of the college. Judith is currently a professor at the Medical School. In short the two know their way around Cambridge...
...priceless works by Galileo, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other greats exactly as they appear in the originals--complete with watermarks, worn pages and wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems CEO John Warnock, an avid rare-book collector, Octavo has so far published 15 titles. Others soon to come include Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Wycliffe New Testament...
...Pittsburgh lab. Everything he did after that was taken as showboating--when he opened the Salk Institute, a superlab in La Jolla, Calif., for the world's scientists to retreat to and bask in, and even when not long before his death in 1995, he started a search for an AIDS vaccine, to a flourish of trumpets and welcome new funding...
Want to see how much the world has changed in the past decade? Log on to the Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire (British spelling, please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire" about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click...
...Finding the same telltale mineral in other craters, he concluded that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting astronomers to join the hunt and cajoling Congress into funding it. Even the public began to take notice when, in 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (which he co-discovered) crashed into Jupiter in an awesome demonstration of what could happen here...