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Seven months later, Ozernoy was granted permission to leave the Soviet Union and take up his position at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...gave my Cambridge kitchen to the Smithsonian and most of my culinary books to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard. But I picked out what I really needed, mostly reference works like the Larousse Gastronomique and specialty volumes such as those on Russian and Moroccan cooking. I kept only those I considered serious source materials by able, trustworthy people like Jim Beard--I was very fond of him--Marcella Hazan and Lydia Bastianich. Then, of course, I kept all my own books and those by my French colleague Simone Beck, who died in 1987. They made me think...
...really want those somewhere where they can be appreciated,” she says. “Those accounts go all the way back to July 14, 1854. I’m talking to the Smithsonian right...
...many of the same reasons it makes sense for a university to tenure professors, it makes sense for the Smithsonian Observatory to retain scientists to conduct research on a long-term basis. Some of the greatest breakthroughs in science have come from serendipitous discoveries in initially unrelated lines of research. Research that at first appears to have little short-term benefit can yield incredible gains over time. Additionally, the Smithsonian Observatory’s superb record over the last century supports the argument that the observatory’s independence is part of the reason for its continued success...
...many members of Congress have taken up the observatory’s cause. Thirty-two representatives have signed a letter to protect the center’s funding. We hope that they will be able to block the proposed change and to preserve the independence that has made the Smithsonian Observatory an invaluable scientific asset...