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...significance of the new findings was underscored by the haste with which they were revealed. The Stanford team, led by Burton Richter (a 1976 Nobel laureate), went public first, issuing a press release only one day before a European symposium at which CERN's findings were to have been presented. That led to charges of bad sportsmanship from some of the CERN team, led by Carlo Rubbia (1984 Nobel), whose results are said to be more accurate and even more definitive...
Perhaps indicative of modern Japanese attitudes is a question posed by a member of the Japanese contingent to a Smithsonian Institution symposium on the ethics of whaling. The representative asked how a whale differed from a mosquito, not to argue that both should receive protection but that both are expendable. "The Japanese don't seem to accept the concept of sustainable development," contends conservationist McManus, "((the idea)) that there can be a middle ground between total exploitation or total protection...
Although the symposium was titled "Free Speech and the First Amendment," the five journalists and politicians spent the hour-and-a-half chatting about current events in a discussion moderated by Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller...
...symposium was informal, and the alumni interjected jokes into the conversation, which spanned the protests in China, elections in Poland, the resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tx.) and the Iran-Contra affair...
...homogenous crowd at Sanders Theater proved more than casually interested in Harvard's increased student diversity over the last 25 years, throwing back questions on minority and women's issues to Harvard President Derek C. Bok and Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, the symposium leaders...