Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McKinney v. Harvard, et al.). The article was also in error when it suggested that I had been a drug dealer. Quite the reverse, I was a nationally respected drug educator, whose curricula materials were used in schools throughout the country, by the Armed Services and the Smithsonian Institution. My pharmaceutical firm extracts the legal drug THC from marijuana plants processed legally abroad...
Lining the Mall are the Smithsonian museums, which are crowded, fascinating and, best of all, free. The two biggies are the National Gallery of Art and the Air and Space Museum...
...have already seen those two and the other big mall museums like the Hirshorn, which features more modern art, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Castle, try the new, underground Sackler Asian Art and African Art museums. They are a little more exotic than their above-ground neighbors...
Kirshner and his three co-workers, John P. Hughes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), Stephen R. Heathcote from the Cerro Tololo Observatory and Frank Winkler from Middlebury College, published these findings in the January 5 issue of Nature magazine. The cover of the famous periodical shows a picture created by Kirshner portraying his theory of the double supernova explosions in Puppis...
...Astronomical Roots), a program taught in 18 schools in 13 states. STAR is based on the premise that books are abysmal tools for learning science. "It's impossible to understand an astronomy diagram without using three dimensions at proper scale," says Irwin Shapiro, the irrepressible director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and the man who dreamed up STAR six years ago. "High school science textbooks are impossible. They are dense with concepts and jargon. No one understands what's going on." Adds Kenneth Mirvis, who writes STAR course materials: "This is not a curriculum...