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...months before he takes office, it is imperative that Summers open a dialogue with the undergraduate community. As the president-select, he should address the campus and make students aware of his priorities and goals. Though he has taught Harvard students as a professor and teaching fellow, Summers should go out of his way to familiarize himself with other aspects of the undergraduate experience. He should eat dinner in Annenberg and the Houses, pay visits to student groups and attend Core sections. Summers should actively encourage students to approach him directly about their concerns...
...addition to his post at HLS, Zittrain serves on the advisory board of the World Economic Forum. He has also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and in the State Department...
Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs and Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos were among a select few allowed to see the designs for Kamen's plan...
...local anticommunist intelligence work. He was raised as a Lutheran on a street lined with towering elms in a middle-class neighborhood of northwest Chicago. Next-door neighbors remember Bob as polite, a good kid who did well in school and pleased his teachers. He went to the select liberal-arts Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he majored in chemistry but had few extracurricular activities, unusual in the busy, close-knit society of the school. He also studied Russian, something even his mother Vivian says she did not know. "He might have been one of those loners," says Bruce...
NASA has a keen interest in solar sailing and has budgeted $5 million to investigate 17 possible missions. It may select one as early as next month. But while the space agency has been mulling plans, the people behind the new ship, dubbed Cosmos 1, have been getting set to fly. The project is the brainchild of Russia's Babakin Space Center, near Moscow, and the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif., a think tank founded in 1979 by astronomer Carl Sagan and others. The two groups had long been developing plans for a solar-sail mission but got the cash...