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"For many of us in the astronomy community, saying goodbye to Spitzer is saying goodbye to a dear friend that journeyed with us through the cosmos. Spitzer has spawned an entire generation of scientists, now eagerly waiting the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope to continue exploring the infrared universe."
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Senior lecturer Brenda Schertz, a whirlwind of energy, teaches the first American Sign Language classes at Cornell that meet the College of Arts and Sciences’ three-semester world language requirement.
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“I would say that (Gorham) would not be authorized to arrest or interrogate or search anyone,'' says Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, assistant clinical professor of law. "And his action seems to be adjacent to be making an arrest or part of making an arrest. So it probably is unlawful under this statute.’’
Francine Blau, professor in the ILR School, is quoted extensively throughout this piece on the cost of child-care and how various households in the U.S. must approach it.
“If you required a license for each tweet that gets posted, that would make Twitter impossible,” says James Grimmelman professor of law. “It doesn’t make firearm sales impossible.”
“Natural gas production in the United States is leaking somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5 percent of the gas we produce into the atmosphere which is, you know a relatively small amount of gas if you think about it… But that 3.5 percent is enough to do severe damage to the climate” says Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
“The signing of the Phase 1 deal would represent a welcome, even if modest, de-escalation of trade hostilities between China and the U.S.,” says Eswar Prasad, senior professor of trade policy. “But it hardly addresses in any substantive way the fundamental sources of trade and economic tensions between the two sides, which will continue to fester.’’
"These organizations and foundations have burrowed into the Democratic Party to try to push it in a certain direction with regard to education reform," says visiting lecturer in the ILR School, Lee Howard Adler.