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...would say he was largely responsible for cracking the case," said Charles S. Hurley, former spokesperson for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., where Stoll was working when the initial computer break-in occurred. "He pursued them with extraordinary persistence...
SUCH an argument easily extends to the dearth of women on the faculty of the University. Harvard ranks dead last in the Ivy League in terms of tenured women, since women make up only 5 percent of the faculty University-wide. When such prestigious institutions as Columbia, Pennsylvannia, Berkeley, Dartmouth, and Cornell have percentages twice as high as Harvard's, it leads one to the conclusion that the problem is inherent in the institution and not in the pool...
...That kind of argument has been made for decades," says Robert N. Bellah '48-'50, a sociology professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "I can't see that his recruiting some unpleasant people in Europe in 1949 is going to make much of a difference on that score...
...faculty has been under attack for the past several years, as younger academics say that the near-impossibility of being promoted from within Harvard's faculty makes the University a less attractive workplace than many of the other prestigious schools, such as Columbia or the University of California at Berkeley...
...about 1,000 m.p.h., the pulsar's is moving at more than 200 million m.p.h. By rights, the pulsar should fly apart, but it is so dense -- a teaspoon of it would weigh 300,000 tons on earth -- that its gravity holds it together. Says Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, a member of the discovery team: "We can't help being astounded by what we are seeing...