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At Rensselaer: February 1984

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THE RENSSELAER ALUMNI BULLETIN FEBRUARY 1984 The Truth About Robin Hood Eyes on Space
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FEBRUARYl Staff of at Rensselaer Editor: Robert M . Whitaker Contributing Write rs: Martin Ba rol s ky , Carolyn S . Chin…
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1LEI'I'ERSI Giving Something Back Editor: I wish to be among those num- bered contributors to the Rensselaer Fund…
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Alec Gallimore surveys a model of the space telescope that he and 30 other RPI students are helping to build. EYES ON SPACE…
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time on experiments that test semiconduc- tor crystal growth in space. And before Wiedemeier's work , aerospace…
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Professor Heribert Wiedemeier's crystals grown in space (left) were 10 to 100 times larger and of much beller quality…
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SAY IT AIN'T SO, AMOS! The Tawdry Tale of Amos Eaton's Term in the Newgate State Prison T here's a skeleton…
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For generations, Eaton and RPI apolo- gists tried to sweep the tawdry tale under the rug . For instance, as late as 1914 RPI…
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feud . Quite the opposite; Pendleton had gone on to become one of Hamilton 's most trusted a111es . Indeed , in the very…
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Type theory defines personality as the way you prefer to see and react to the world. Does that affect the way you work?…
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... THE OUTER WORLD OF ACTIONS, OBJECTS, AND PERSONS? ... THE INNER WORLD OF CONCEPTS AND IDEAS? culty witJt some…
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... OBJECTIVELY, IMPERSONALLY, CONSIDERING CAUSES OF EVENTS AND WHERE DECISIONS MAY LEAD? ... SUBJECTIVELY AND…
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being alone . They relate most easily to an inner world of self and ideas ; " they go inside to think ." Articulate…
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Death of a star: In 1054, Chinese astronomers watched as a massive star, now known as the Crab Nebula, exploded. Space…
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Agency by the 17-member Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., i on the Homewood campu of John Hopkins…
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atmospheres , you 'd be crushed by gravity before your feet touched anything solid." Spacecraft would have to…
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tons arriving from wherever the telescope points . While measurement can be made from the ground at the rate of 1,000 time a…
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Galaxies Astronomers know that galaxies come in types. Slightly flattened or pherical , ellip- tical galaxies are compo ed…
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pi oded into being 15 to 20 billion years ago . Since then , everything- space and time, matter and energy- has been drifting…
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Three ways of looking at an active galaxy and its small, exceptionally bright center: Radio spectroscopy of the large…
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000 REVISED The legend of the merry outlaw began more than 700 years ago. His history is vague but, says a British…
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The question of Robin Hood's origins remains , and there are several routes to an answer. One, of course, i to identi…
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nal gang, both men and women , suspected of robberies and the receiving of robbers, who had fled the jurisdiction of the…
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