Houghton
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Collaborators and co-authors Terry Plank of Columbia University and Bruce Houghton of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, traveled to Mount Etna to systematically collect samples.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
As Merryl Goldberg relates in her account of the adventure, “Notes of Deception,” written with the intelligence historian Vince Houghton, she and her friends were traveling incognito.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Houghton and his partner begrudgingly began figuring out how to arrange episodes and soon discovered the process was also helping them structure the investigation.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Then in 1954, she wed Jenner’s dad, Robert “Bob” True Houghton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
In that very first moment, when Houghton swished off the cloth, all Harrison had was a hunch, an instinctive sense that something was amiss.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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