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...while the people at the peak of Mount Harvard--like President Derek C. Bok--are much too busy and important to speak to you, in their infinite wisdom they have assembled a cast of less luminous, but always smiling, characters to handle undergraduate concerns...
...helioseismology, which, simply stated, involves "listening" to the interior of the sun as it bubbles, gurgles and swirls. The entire outer third of the sun is a seething ocean of gas, constantly churned by thermal convection. And convection, says astronomer John Harvey of the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak, "is a very noisy process. So the sun makes noise, just as a pot of water does as it boils...
...eager to report a story from that intriguing dateline since she learned of its existence at a gathering of astronomers last year. For this week's cover, Nash finally got her wish. "Sunspot isn't properly a town," she says, but a "singularly beautiful place, high on a mountain peak, that is one of the world's most important centers of solar research." The day after her arrival, Nash looked through a telescope "longer than a football field" to view the rising sun. She glimpsed a stunning, white-hot world swept by turbulence that made it look "grainy...
COVER: The sun is becoming more violent as it nears the peak of its eleven- year cycle of activity...
THEATER: While Broadway slumps, London hits a peak...