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...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) was formed to cap an 18-year experiment in which the University's academic prestige was combined with the Institute's resources. The result marks the union of two of the country's oldest astronomical observatories...
...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...
Clifford Stoll, a 38 year-old computer expert at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, broke the East European spy ring by setting up a complex monitoring system on his computer...
...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...
...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...