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...report’s most innovative proposals urges schools to allow tenured and tenure-track professors to work part-time for up to five years while raising young children or caring for elderly dependents...
...group’s chairwoman, Evelynn M. Hammonds, professor of the history of science and of African-American studies, said in an interview Friday that the proposals for a part-time track, tenure clock postponement, and multi-year leaves are all “outside the purview of the task force...
...began training indoors with the invention of the Model A rowing ergometer in 1980. Their idea quickly grew event into the premier world indoor rowing championship that the C.R.A.S.H.-B’s are today. In 1997 the event found its current home at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston...
...event is unique and unlike anything many people have ever seen. The track of the Reggie Lewis Center is lined with two rows of 40 ergs each. A huge screen is put up to display a virtual simulation of the race. With over 2,200 competitors, the event is almost as large as the Head of the Charles Regatta, but the indoor location allows it to be held over the course of only one day. The spectators get to see the whole race and the competitors get the rare opportunity to hear their fans cheer them on, something missing when...
...gaseous compound, known as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), is a precursor to bomb-grade uranium, something bombmakers feed into centrifuges to harvest the highly fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track: forensic tests focus on trace isotopes, such as U-234, whose prevalence differs from country to country and even from mine to mine. After the U.S. gained access to Tripoli's bombmaking labs a year ago, it ran tests on the UF6 it found there. U.S. officials would not connect...