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...bang and the age of the universe,” and Astronomy 120: “Stellar Physics” discusses stars and their formation and degeneration, Charbonneau said. In addition, Astronomy 100: “Methods of Observational Astronomy,” will take students on a field trip to the F.L. Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona, where students will be able to gather data using the powerful telescopes located there.Charbonneau said he hopes that every class of concentrators will ultimately be able to take such a field trip and work with telescopes first-hand, and that...
...didn’t play as well as we would have liked, a lot of good work was done over spring break,” captain Mike Shore said. “We were just trying to get the rust out and that’s what [the California trip] is all about.” Mayer and Amira both shot 84 on the day, while UCR’s five and six—Bruce Doucett and Daniel Brainard—shot 81 and 82, respectively. Four more Crimson golfers competed individually, not contributing to the team results. Junior...
French leaders have always been more frequent visitors to Africa than their Western peers, but President Nicolas Sarkozy looks set to eclipse them all in trips to the continent. On Thursday, Sarkozy began his fifth African sojourn in less than three years with a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a violence-plagued Central African nation that of which most Western officials steer well clear. His goal? To sell his ambitious plan economic cooperation aimed at bring peace to some of the region's embattled countries - and in the process restore French influence in Africa...
...Given the mix of altruistic and self-serving motives, it's not surprising Sarkozy's trip is inspiring as equal measures of hope and suspicion. The French president kicked off his three-nation swing through the Great Lakes region in Kinshasa, where he praised President Joseph Kabila for reaching agreement in January with leaders of neighboring Rwanda to launch joint military operations against militia groups fighting both regimes from strongholds in eastern Congo. The result, Sarkozy noted, has been an a halt to the massacres that have forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee the area. (See pictures...
...fantastically rich in resources, and could logically be expected to partner with France when restored stability allows economic and industrial development to begin in earnest. Exchanges between the two countries now stand at a modest $250 million per year; but that might be boosted as a result of a trip on which Sarkozy was accompanied by officials from construction firms Lafarge and Vinci, France Telecom, Aeroports de Paris, and Alstom...