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While Harvard has also been approached by insurance companies suggesting similar plans, it has turned them down, said Director of Planned Giving Charles W. Collier...
...House Banking subcommittee on financial institutions passed a similar 1.5 percent standard last week and Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Texas), chair of the full committee, says he will try to increase that when his panel begins redrafting the legislation next Wednesday...
...reproduce the incredible pressures and temperatures in the center of the sun, where fusion occurs freely. Scientists have used either powerful magnets to keep the hot hydrogen plasma--at about 200 million degrees Centigrade--from touching anything physical or huge lasers to heat a small pellet of deuterium to similar temperatures...
...forerunner of the CFA emerged in 1955 out of an unusual collaboration between Harvard University and the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian Institute. While similar joint arrangements later developed into leading research sites such as Los Alamos at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories, the CFA was the first to take advantage of pooled resources and helped stake the U.S. to an early lead in international astrophysics...
Walsh said that he came up with the idea of asking Harvard for a loan at a recent League of Cities and Towns meeting, where he heard of a similar arrangement that had been set up between Northwestern University and Evanston, Illinois. He said that he did not think that there was any precedent for Harvard loaning money to Cambridge...