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Most recently--and most tragically--amateurs pitched in to help NASA reconstruct the debris trail of the shuttle Columbia. More than 3,000 eyewitnesses--half of them amateur astronomers, many of whom had GPS markers that pinpointed their location--phoned in reports. "These people are our heroes," says Paul Hill, a NASA flight director whose job it was to sift through all the witness reports. "There are 15 to 20 of them who were key to our being able to do our analysis...
...temples, spaced about half an hour apart, break up the hike and offer simple lodging as well as prayer flag-fringed vistas of the glacier's jagged surface. So far the glacier attracts a mere 6,000 visitors a year, and it's perfectly possible to walk this lovely trail without coming across another human being...
...what I've seen doesn't inspire confidence. When I finally arrive at the end of the road in the picturesque ethnic-Tibetan town of Xidan, where the trail to the isolated Yubeng Valley (and village) starts, I'm expecting tranquillity. Instead, there's a phalanx of bulldozers clawing at the hilly approach to the trailhead. "As you can see, we're opening up to tourism," says Ga Te, a young official from the local tourism bureau. "Soon we'll have a parking lot. For now, though, we'll have to settle for mules...
...winding trail climbs steeply over a foothill of the province's stunning Meili range, through forests of rhododendron and towering hemlock and past open views of the snow-capped peaks that have kept Yubeng in a state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their...
...expand on past efforts. Latinos have become the largest and fastest growing minority group in America, and Admissions Office reports show that the composition of students admitted to Harvard grew from 7.8 percent Latino last year to 8.8 percent this spring. While this increase is encouraging, these numbers still trail behind the representation of other minority groups on campus. Not only should groups like the University Minority Recruitment Program get the support they need to redouble their outreach effort to convince more top Latino students to apply to Harvard, the admissions office should continue to provide focused programming to ensure...