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January/February 1999

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“It is a really hard job. My joy is seeing good work done, but the drudgery is fund raising. I’m wearing out, and I’m getting out.”

-- Physicist Burton Richter, announcing plans to step down as director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center after 15 years in the post

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