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Hubble's Constant, named after the late astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, sets the ratio of the velocity of objects to their distance. Equations for determining the size, age and density of the universe depend critically on plugging in Hubble's Constant...
Bell said his past experience with similar groups shows that the commission's success and direction will depend on McGill's ability to direct committee members...
...freedom, which Schapiro calls an "indispensible condition," The loss of the decorum and restraint necessary to traditional art permits the artist to explore "new domains and intensities of feeling." Schapiro points out that the absence of recognizable objects places new demands on the modern artist who can no longer depend on his subject to focus the viewer's attention...
...United States growing waste disposal problems have been brought to the public's attention in the last month by a series of incidents. First, Ray shut down the Hanford site, causing a slight panic among the nation's universities and hospitals which depend on radioactive maerials for their experiments. A couple of weeks later, Nevada Gov. Robert List shut down the second of the nation's three radioactive waste burial grounds at Beatty, Nev. "I'm just tired of having to assume the responsibility for having our people take the risks in a system which is not properly regulated," List...
...strategies that have served HMC well so far and that have given Harvard its "aura" depend on optimistic expectations that the American economy will eventually break out of the "inflationary psychology of buying today because it will be more expensive tomorrow," Cabot says. The University invests more heavily in the energy and capital goods industries that thrive in the strong industrial economy Harvard is betting...