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Summers says that Dean of the Physical Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, who was lured from the University of California at Santa Barbara, serves as a model of the cross-department appeal that the administration is seeking in a life sciences dean...
...maybe I’m stretching here, but I have a feeling that most of us would envision lost privacy in terms of an airbrushed photo on the cover of Us Weekly, maybe a shout-out or two on ET. But not a haggard mugshot taken at the Santa Barbara County Jail—no, some things should be off-limits even in the realm of celebrity, and I think it would be fair to include child molestation charges on that short list. Pedophilia is a mental disorder; it’s avolitional. It’s for the same...
...credit bureaus. Such provisions should help consumers control their credit information and stave off the rise in identity theft, which cost individuals $5 billion last year. Still, many consumer groups opposed the federal rewrite because it prevents states from enacting stronger consumer-protection laws of their own. --By Barbara Kiviat...
...Barbara Erlandson was cruising along the information superhighway when she spotted her dream home on eRealty.com Erlandson, a marketing consultant in Leesburg, Va., saw images of a 200-year-old stucco house with hardwood floors and three fireplaces. That evening she drove by the house and, when she got home, dropped an e-mail to an agent at eRealty. The next day she visited the place with the agent and soon made an offer. A week after closing, she received a rebate check from eRealty for $4,250, equal to 1% of the purchase price...
...especially tough to be away from family. Lyman Echola, 68, a former teacher in Wisconsin, has frustratingly little phone contact with his grown children, though he has talked them into visiting Ecuador, where he's a WorldTeach volunteer. Others just cart their children along, as did Barbara and Ed Dunsworth, 50 and 55, when they moved from Nova Scotia (where Ed had practiced law) to take a position in South America with Habitat for Humanity. The family lives in Buenos Aires, where the Dunsworths are helping establish a Habitat branch...