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...kept up his Russian in courses here, is taking this term off. He leaves next month for Micronesia, where he will put together a documentary film on child behavior. Schecter, who is an anthropology major, first developed an interest in film after attending an ethnographic film conference at the Smithsonian Institute as a senior in high school. In Micronesia, he will be working under the auspices of the Smithsonian's anthropological film center, which sponsored a documentary he had worked on in South America last year. Schecter admits that his Russian experience will seem very remote when he is filming...
George Zug, curator of amphibians and reptiles at Washington's Smithsonian Institution, speculated that there might even be a population of several such creatures in Loch Ness, which is 24 miles long, and 700 feet deep over much of its length. But scientists from the British Museum (Natural History) found the pictures too fuzzy for accurate interpretation. Others questioned the controls under which they were made and took Nature to task for printing the article...
Scott said that one major NASA grant was for research involving U.S. satellites by the Smithsonian and Harvard College Observatories...
...scientists from the People's Republic of China visited the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Monday as part of a one-month tour of American scientific institutions...
Members of the delegation met with Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicists to discuss common research interests, and Chang Ho-Chi, professor at "Purple Mountain" Observatory, lectured on the solar corona on Monday...