Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Can planning rein in a stampede? People around Aspen, Colo., thought maybe it was a bit much when Prince Bandar of Saudia Arabia built a mountain home about the size of the White House – 55,000 square feet, not including outbuildings. So […]
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The astronomer
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, Making a mountain into a starbase. “Observatories are usually exceedingly benign places. They become animal refuges …” Peter Strittmatter, a British astronomer with a Ph.D. from Cambridge, became director of the U of A’s Steward Observatory in 1975, an appointment he recognized as “a […]