Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College has the highest yield in the country of accepted students who attend (around 80 percent) because it is the oldest, most famous and richest institution of higher learning in the country. These characteristics have multiple implications: the Faculty consists of superior minds; the academic resources are unparalleled; the athletics program is well-funded; and the student body is split into overlapping categories: the brilliant or exceptionally talented; the very well-rounded or extremely ambitious; the children of the rich, connected, distinguished...
...went to high school in the town of Princeton, took a course at the university and lived approximately two minutes from campus. My decision not to attend Princeton, whose intimacy appealed to me very much at the time, was influenced by this great familiarity. What I realized in my first and second years here, though, is that Harvard is a fantastic, dynamic university, with unique opportunities; and that, contrary to what I believed as a senior in high school, Princeton would not have been the right place...
...biases to invest in the health and well-being of girls as well as boys. In a world in which 1.5 billion people subsist on less than $1 a day, this Nobel Prize can be not just a celebration of a wonderful scholar but also a clarion call to attend to the urgent needs and hopes of the world's poor...
...million of his own. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has taped a TV spot. Groups including the American Lung Association and the California Medical Association have contributed funds and organizers. Hollywood heavies from Steven Spielberg to Robin Williams have given money; and Hillary Clinton has agreed to attend an L.A. fund raiser. "Prop 10 would utterly transform the well-being of small children across the state," says Peter Digre, director of the L.A. County Department of Child Welfare Services...
...literally outgrown the home. Wichita's home schoolers boast three bands, a choir, a bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate team, a yearly musical, two libraries and a cap-and-gown graduation. In donated rooms across Wichita, home schoolers attend classes in algebra, English, science, swimming, accounting, sewing, public speaking and Tae Kwan Do. Parental support groups with names like BEST (Believing, Encouraging and Studying Together) and HOPE (Helping Other Parents Educate) crisscross the city, organizing field trips and swapping lesson plans. This year the Wichita Home School Warriors hosted...