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However this method will not solve the problem by itself. To begin with, it does not always work. Last week's rejections demonstrate that even the name and resources of Harvard are not irresistable...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: The Home-Grown Solution | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...addition, the "hiring away" method is insufficient because it does not make a contribution to the nationwide dearth of women and minority academics. This is not to suggest that Harvard can be faulted for going after the finest available scholars. Academic excellence, after all, is this institution's modus vivendi...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: The Home-Grown Solution | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...Ramsey's increased precision that enabled scientists to use the atomic clock for the official measurement of world time. In 1967, his method was used to redefine the second as the length of time it takes a cesium nucleus to rotate 9,192,631,770 times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Using Nuclei To Tell Time | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

This general procedure was created initially by I.I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate who was Ramsey's Ph.D adviser at Columbia. Ramsey improved on Rabi's method by separating the oscillating field into two smaller fields, which increased the precision of the experiment and the accuracy of the measurement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Using Nuclei To Tell Time | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

PERHAPS the most fruitful method, I conclude, would be to approach the haircut as a financial endeavor and search for coupons. If there's anyone willing to cut their fares to cut my hair, they deserve some business...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Superlative Cuts | 10/12/1989 | See Source »

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