Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planning for week-long Space Shuttle flights, designed in part by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientists, can be slightly more difficult and time-consuming...
According to Harvey D. Tananbaum, director of the AXAF Science Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the advanced X-ray astrophysics facility (AXAF) allows physicists to produce images of objects which cannot be differentiated by other telescopes...
When Glanton and the board petitioned the court for permission to sell, there was an explosion of protest from museum professionals and critics -- among them, Thomas Freudenheim, the Smithsonian Institution's under secretary for museums, who condemned the plan as "in direct conflict with the museum's archival and research function." The consensus outside the foundation was that the Barnes collection was a national treasure, which ought to be preserved in every detail. Besides, the sale would have flagrantly contradicted Barnes' stated wishes -- "No picture belonging to the collection," runs the foundation's charter, "shall ever be loaned, sold...
...even 50,000 years ago. Although the evidence is still sketchy, archaeological digs in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada have yielded tantalizing clues that this radical notion might be correct. "This is a hot area of research," says Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. "Man's origin in the New World is one of the major unanswered questions of archaeology...
...current consensus is that dinosaurs were not strictly ectothermic but fell short of full-fledged endothermy. "The problem," notes Michael Brett- Surman of the Smithsonian Institution, "is that there is no such thing as 'the dinosaur.' There were seven groups living 150 million years ago that started out as one thing and perhaps evolved into something else." Although Deinonychus, Velociraptor and other small, meat-eating bipeds may have been warm-blooded, Brett-Surman believes large predators like Tyrannosaurus rex, which went through three vastly different growth stages, may have been equipped with a variable metabolism...