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...make the clouds' water or ice particles bigger and yield more rain. The technique has been used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years - with varying success. But the slow ramp up of weather technology - and an enduring human obsession to play with the sky - has kept the practice afloat during times of hard skepticism and dwindling funds...
...influenced by advisers whose future depends on the survival of their political bodyguard. Gonzales remains the last line of defense protecting Bush, Rove and other top White House officials from the personal consequences of litigation. A high-profile probe would hobble the White House politically, and could mean sky-high legal bills and turmoil for Bush's closest aides...
...such esoteric fields--imagine Henry Ford fixating on the origin of the universe--but Kavli, 79, says he got the bug long before he made his fortune in the U.S. aerospace industry. He grew up on a farm in rural Norway, where he remembers being awestruck by the night sky. "There was no city nearby," he says, so when the aurora borealis lit up, "the sky was completely inflamed." Kavli's fascination with the universe deepened in college after World War II when his physics teacher relayed details from a friend, the legendary quantum theorist Niels Bohr, of the latest...
Doyle Professor of Cosmology John P. Huchra also emphasized the importance of being able to examine sky variability over long periods of time...
According to Huchra, this project—the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH)—would provide just such an opportunity...