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...trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Marlboro School of Music, and is a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, Gray is a member of the boards of directors of J.P.Morgan & Co., the Cummings Engine Company,Atlantic Richfield Company and Ameritech...
...faster." Measuring a large Hubble Constant and an apparently low age today, in other words, wouldn't be a reliable indicator of what was going on earlier in the universe's lifetime. Theorists might hate Einstein's abandoned child, but, says John Huchra, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "to an experimentalist it seems no more ad hoc than inflation...
...sculptures up for approval in the $52 million project. It is also one of only three sculptures showing F.D.R. himself. This all seems rather simple, but in truth, telling history is a difficult task these days, filled with experts, historians and special interests. Recently war veterans pressured the Smithsonian Institution to change its presentation of the Enola Gay. The original script for that World War II exhibition, they said, implied that the use of an atomic weapon on Hiroshima was overkill for a blameless enemy...
...change is symbolized in the office of Alaska's only Representative, Republican Don Young. On his walls are more animal heads and hides-and the guns that made them trophies-than in almost any room in Washington outside the Smithsonian. Young is the greens' worst nightmare...
...centenary of the death of Frederick Douglass, the Maryland slave born in 1818 who became the most renowned African-American voice of his generation in the U.S. antislavery movement and a relentless tribune of racial equality after the Civil War. To commemorate the abolitionist's triumphs and disappointments, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery this week opens ``Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass,'' an exhibition with more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, documents and personal memorabilia. Through...