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...experiments that could determine if life exists on distant rocky planets. On earth, oxygen presence shows evidence of photosynthesis and hence life—if he were able to find oxygen content on another planet, this could be evidence of life. Christine E. Pulliam, the spokeswoman at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said Charbonneau “is great at taking small grants and making impressive things out of them.” Charbonneau said he was preparing a lecture for one of his undergraduate astronomy classes when he received a call from the National Science Foundation informing...
...Irving St., just a few blocks east of the Science Center. Although the students could not enter the historic three-story abode, as it is now a private residence, they circulated a photograph of Child’s kitchen, which was moved in its entirety to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. three years before her death in 2004. Two blocks away on Kirkland St., students took a tour of Savenor’s Market, the butcher shop and grocer frequented and made famous by Child. Students went behind-the-scenes at the butchering station, learning...
...their haste to dodge Tokyo’s mistakes, Obama and his advisers are making their own. Thinking government must spend something—anything—to boost the economy, Democrats scraped the pork barrel for ideas: $650 million for digital TV converter box coupons, $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities, $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint...
...Smithsonian wants ARETHA FRANKLIN...
...lion to meet the mailman; yet another tried in vain to keep penguins in a walk-in freezer. One wrote Pablo Picasso asking to buy ten paintings; he didn't specify color or type, just the size of his wall. A Houston oilman's wife wrote to the Smithsonian to ask whether the Hope Diamond was for sale. Then there were the two oilmen who loved playing practical jokes on each other; the high point of their duel came when one took a European vacation and his rival erected a full-size roller coaster in his front yard...