Word: kirshners
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...fellow astronomers Wendy Freedman, Robert Kirshner and Geoff Marcy and I were delighted with your exciting article about the renaissance in ground-based astronomy and optical systems [ASTRONOMY, Nov. 13]. The explosion of new telescopes and other state-of-the-art tools is providing astronomers with unprecedented opportunities. What should also be emphasized is the way ground- and space-based telescopes work together. Far from being just a finder telescope for the Keck, as the piece suggested, the amazing Hubble Space Telescope--arguably the most productive astronomical instrument ever--has been a wellspring for investigations with ground-based telescopes. Indeed...
Riess's colleagues are most impressed with his willingness to challenge his own work. "Instead of making an emotional commitment to the accelerating universe," says Harvard's Robert Kirshner, one of the team's leaders, "Adam is always trying to see whether we've done things right...
Antonelli's has all the elements of a 1940s film-noir tale: vampy dames, a seedy speakeasy, and a host of slick mobsters and other sundry paisans. The story centers around lounge singer Barbara Goldman (Jessica Kirshner '01), who is kind of blue that her FBI agent boyfriend Charles Redmond (Nick Adams '03) spends more time at the office tracking down mobsters than he does with her. When she's offered a cushy job performing at the mob-run restaurant Antonelli's, the feisty "Bar" takes the offer in hopes that her inside scoop on The Family will help...
...date Democrats, do I have to marry one? Or can I do as Republican men supposedly do, and later revert to the right-thinking kind . . .? Hmmm. That’s putting the wedding before the first date. To quote Professor Robert Kirshner, “just for fun,” let’s start from “first sight...
...This work has nothing to do with IPOs, patents or personal gain," Kirshner says. "It has everything to do with the power of ideas...