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  1. Letter to the Editor

    The Layoff of Dr. Tim Parker: An Open Letter to JPL

    I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Parker speak at my astronomy club and was greatly dismayed at how brutally and abruptly he was laid off at your prestigious institution. I worked at JPL as a temporary secretary while working on my software engineering degree in the early 1980s and loved it there. I just don’t understand how a company could come in and lock a person of such stature and education out of his work of many years there within an hour of being laid off. Now he has to hope he will be