Word: smithsonian
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Amateur astronomers around the world can now receive monetary compensation for their comet discoveries, thanks to the annual Edgar Wilson Award, announced this June by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
Last Tuesday, we represented Harvard students at a conference on sweatshops at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor. The conference--called No Sweat University--brought together students, university presidents, licensing directors and apparel manufacturers. Several panels featuring representatives of the above groups discussed how universities could ensure that retail garments featuring school logos are not made in sweatshops--by adopting licensing codes of conduct...
...much less at stake. The First Lady's latest mission was, well, First Lady-like: to train the spotlight on what the White House calls "America's Treasures"--historic and cultural sites that have been so neglected that many could be lost. She began her trip at the Smithsonian, where the flag that in 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner is faded and deteriorating. Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half of his 1,093 patented inventions, and where 5 million documents, including lab notes...
From here, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will monitor the AXAF telescope after the Space Shuttle Columbia launches...
Just try to find a new Sinatra. Scan the billboard album charts, and you'll find no one openly Sinatraesque. Check out The Jazz Singers (the Smithsonian Collection), a new five-CD, 104-song collection of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 20th century; the only singer featured who sounds overtly like Sinatra is Sinatra himself, represented by his 1956 Nelson Riddle-arranged rendition of Night...