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Neil DeGrasse Tyson owes his colleague Michael Brown a big thank-you--and flowers wouldn't be a bad idea either. Back in 2000, Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years...
...took the debate to a whole new plane. Along with his colleague Chad Trujillo, Brown had found something very much like Pluto, only bigger, and last month he declared that the object known officially as 2003 UB313--and temporarily nicknamed Xena--has its own little moon. Suddenly, the question Tyson had raised to make a provocative educational point became something much larger: if Pluto is a planet, then Brown's new object must be one as well...
...administration at HBS and former dean of the London Business School; Debora L. Spar, Spangler professor of business administration and senior associate dean for faculty recruiting at HBS; Peter Tufano ’79, Coleman professor of financial management and director of faculty development at HBS; and Laura D. Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former dean of Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.All six were mentioned by Business Week or the Financial Times.Tyson served as the national economic adviser in the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s, working alongside Summers, who was in the Treasury...
...regrets, says the official, is having relied on FEMA's assurances that it would provide bus transportation out of the Superdome to evacuees. A day later, she discovered those buses were still on the way from other states and ordered her staff to start rounding up local buses. Recalls Tyson Bromell II, her rural-development director: "She pulled me to the side, and asked me, 'Where are all the buses?' I said, 'We've been told not to send them, that there were already enough buses.' And she just looked at me and said, 'Get those buses...
...every veteran's nightmare. The battle has long been over, and the honorable discharge is gathering dust in the attic. Then word comes: the ex-soldier has been recalled to active duty. In this case he is former Lieut. Ben Tyson, whose company once massacred civilians in a covered-up atrocity bearing more than a coincidental resemblance to the one at My Lai. When an investigative journalist reveals damning new evidence, Tyson is hauled before a court-martial on charges of mass murder. Is he guilty? Will a military tribunal be more vindictive than civilian justice? Can any circumstances mitigate...