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"You try to ask a question, and the experiment may not answer the question and then you're in trouble," says Biology concentrator Grace H. Jeon '86.
No, you can't change me by throwing water at me--or money. But then TRADING PLACES (Harvard Science Center) might tell a different story. Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd reenact the old Prince and Pauper tale under the guise of a special experiment, the kind without flashing lights. Ackroyd...
Harvard researchers eagerly await next week's liftoff of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia, which will carry their unprecedented experiment on the effects of weightlessness on human blood.
Nelson, who will be the second politician in space--after space sickness expert Senator Jake Garn (R-Utah)--will participate in the Harvard-affiliated experiment. However, Diller stressed that Nelson "will not evaluate the experiment, only make sure the parameters are adhered to and that they are executed properly."
George H. Diller, spokesman for the National Aereonautics and Space Administration--which funded the experiment with a $1.5 million contract--said the tests would study "red cells, lucelytes and platelets" in space, and would allow researchers to observe the various degrees of sedimentation in the blood samples.