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U.S. opts to not rebuild renowned Puerto Rico telescope

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— The National Science Imsan 24 hours
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Thursday that it will not re- Women in Difficulties
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tation of a research and Oranjestad 527 3140
workforce development This July 13, 2016 photo shows the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope at the Arecibo Noord 527 3200
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town of Arecibo where the bly spent some time of your Jones said in a phone in- of the agency’s priorities Fire Dept. 115
telescope was once locat- career at Arecibo.” terview that the decision to is to make STEM more ac- Red Cross 582 2219
ed. But all research abruptly not rebuild the telescope cessible and inclusive and TAXI SERVICES
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at the site that is still in use, hole in the dish and dam- part of the mission that Are- Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
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cility, which is used to study months later, prompting a five-year maintenance TRAVEL INFO
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the world who used the sible manufacturing error James Moore, assistant di- AID FOUNDATIONS
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search for asteroids, plan- day that the investigation ate at NSF.
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to a Nobel Prize and deter-
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“We understand how
much the site has meant to
the community,” said Sean
Jones, assistant director for
directorate of mathemati-
cal and physical sciences
at NSF. “If you’re a radio
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