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Another welcome improvement would be to introduce certain guidelines, regulations and standards to ensure a reasonable quality of education at any and every school. One such guideline might mandate that all newly hired teachers at voucher-participating schools hold Bachelor of Arts degrees. This college degree requirement would not apply retroactively but would apply to current teachers wishing to transfer to other voucher-participating schools...
...most part, however, the Hillbillies fit in surprisingly quickly. Elly May becomes the school heroine and captain of the wrestling team, Jed is sought after as an eligible bachelor, and Jethro is made vice president of the bank. Ever-efficient bank executive Miss Jane Hathaway and her uptight boss Mr. Drysdale, played respectively by the usually talented Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman, fit in so well with the Clampetts that they might as well be adopted into the clan...
...science was the only way to tackle the questions that kept popping into her head. After touring Europe and Africa (where she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro), Profet got a bachelor's degree in physics at Berkeley. She did not pursue a doctorate because the "regimented environment" of academia turned her off. "School isn't my kind of thing," she admits. Still, she took a job as a biology research associate at Berkeley, which gave her the time and freedom to follow wherever her restless mind...
Janet's mother Jane, coming of age during the Depression, took a bachelor's degree in physics and at 24 was about to go to graduate school at Columbia when she met and married Henry Reno, a 36-year-old police reporter for the Miami Herald. Tired of having his Danish surname, Rasmussen, mispronounced, he had picked his last name off a map of Nevada. The couple built a house out of cypress logs in the woods of rural Dade County; 43 years later, it survived Hurricane Andrew without losing more than a couple of shingles. In addition...
...Harvard dropout who parlayed a single computer program into a software empire, Gates, 37, is the most powerful -- and most feared -- person in the industry. With a personal net worth of $7 billion, he is the richest self-made billionaire in history and was, until recently, the most eligible bachelor in America (last month he became engaged to Melinda French, 28, a midlevel executive in charge of Microsoft's desktop-publishing business). Though Gates is famous for his lack of pretension, his habit of flying in coach class and his easy accessibility, he can also be brash, imperious and brutally...