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Participating in a study actually involves a considerable amount of tolerance and perseverance. Gerald A. Jayne, chief research technician at the laboratory, estimates that the lab receives about 200 phone calls per week from people interested in becoming subjects. "Around 90 percent of people, after hearing what's involved, don't want to do it," he says...
Thien T. Huynh '97, a former summer work-study technician at the lab, says that in one particular 11-day study the subject had to stare at a picture of an eye on the wall for 10 minutes, rest for five to 10 minutes, and then look at the picture again for 10 minutes...
...realized that something was horribly wrong. The telescope simply wouldn't focus properly--the result, it turned out, of a light-gathering mirror that had been ground with exquisite precision, but in the wrong shape. After a lengthy investigation, the disaster was laid to a simple, dumb mistake: a technician had assembled a device that guided the mirror-grinding process with one bolt put on backward. The hobbled Hubble could still do some important science, but much of its research program appeared headed out the window. "I'd been working on this for almost two decades," says Bahcall...
...recent Sunday morning, I went into UHS with a minor hand fracture. There was no X-ray technician in the building; there was no doctor who would examine an orthopedic patient. Both of these personnel had to be called in from their homes, both over a half hour away...
...been an ordeal. "A lot of us put on weight," says Moran, 45, a computer technician. "I grew depressed and cried a lot and had headaches. I sacrificed a relationship. It ended because I didn't want to worry about him out there any more. The financial hardships were bad. Some jurors ended up borrowing from each other. There were expenses on the weekend outings that we had to pick up ourselves." And there had been some racial tension among the jurors in the beginning. "The whites and the Mexican would sit at one table for meals, the rest...