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Before launching the campaign three years ago, each school evaluated its needs and priorities as part of the University-wide academic planning process. Rudenstine has asked the Deans to reevaluate these plans now and to refine them for the final stage of the Campaign, he said...
Just getting Pathfinder from Cape Canaveral to Ares Vallis required a remarkable bit of cosmic sharpshooting. Mars is only 4,200 miles across--about half as big as Earth--and the floodplain NASA was aiming for is only 60 miles wide. The barest flutter in the spacecraft's trajectory could have caused Pathfinder to swing far wide of its destination. To prevent the ship from straying too far from its ideal path, the flight plan included five different opportunities for midcourse corrections during which the spacecraft's thrusters could be fired to refine the trajectory. Over the course...
...night of July 3, a student in the Ukrainian Institute Summer Program was diagnosed with measles, an extremely contagious disease, triggering a College-wide scramble to combat the emergence of further cases...
COLD COMFORT People with wide social ties seem to be less susceptible to colds than those who are more isolated--even though they're probably exposed to more germs. Why? Researchers suspect that a support network may help keep immune systems strong...
DIED. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU, 87, prophet of the depths; in Paris. Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-Lung, the first scuba-diving device, in 1943. Weightless and wide-eyed, he recorded the watery wilderness he encountered in The Silent World, a 1953 best seller and Oscar-winning documentary. He aspired higher than the earthly titles he collected over the years (author, filmmaker, environmentalist), writing "Under water, man becomes an archangel." (See Eulogy below...