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Franks is clearly shrewd about avoiding battles he cannot win. Too shrewd, some say. When the Bush Administration wanted Jim Wilkinson, a former Bush campaign aide, to be Franks' spokesman--a job that has traditionally gone to a uniformed officer--the general went along, though many in the military complained that the move politicized a position that should remain apolitical. But a senior Pentagon official said Franks had no choice: "It is not a given that George Bush will win re-election next year, but it is a given that he will lose if this war goes badly...
...much of the wobble has been fixed, thanks to a satellite known as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP. Since July 2001, WMAP has been orbiting in deep space, a million miles from Earth, studying the most ancient light in existence. And in a dramatic reminder that important space science is almost always done by machines, not fragile humans, it reported a series of precision measurements last week that will finally put cosmology on a firm foundation...
...with a resolution some 40 times as sharp as COBE's, WMAP has plenty to say. (The W was added last week in honor of David Wilkinson, the Princeton physicist who helped launch the project but died last summer.) "It's a lot like matching fingerprints," says Spergel. "We ran computer simulations based on many different values for all of the numbers, generated patterns for each and found the one that best matched what we actually...
...Center Director James D. Wilkinson ’65 said he encourages more departments to develop relationships with the Bok Center...
Stare is survived by his wife, Irene, three children from a previous marriage, David Stare, Frederick Stare, and Mary Wilkinson, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...