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...Norman Blank, director of admissions at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says medical schools aren't looking only at whether students have devoted time to research or volunteer hospital work...
...unstealthy planes until Iraq's antiaircraft-missile batteries are destroyed. That assignment is in the hands of electronic-warfare planes like the Air Force's EF-111 Ravens and F-16CJs and the Navy's EA-6B Prowlers, which will fly in behind the F-117s. Their jammers blank out ground-based radar and computer screens, and some of them let fly with HARM missiles, which home in on and destroy radar installations, leaving antiaircraft missiles at the site blind and useless...
...charity. The Groves have endowed 10 chemistry scholarships at CCNY, made contributions to prostate-cancer funds and supported the International Rescue Committee, which brought Grove from Vienna to America. (He still remembers the day the IRC representative in Manhattan sent him out on Fifth Avenue with a blank check to buy the best hearing aid he could find...
Grove's dogma of relentless change and fearless leadership echoes from IBM in Armonk, N.Y., to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He is a perennial cover boy for the business magazines. Yet, he insists in his usual point-blank locution, "I haven't changed." He is a protective father of two daughters (he has asked us not to reveal their names or occupations), a spirited teacher (his Stanford business-school course is an annual sellout) and, almost incidentally, is worth more than $300 million. His 5-ft. 9-in. frame--honed by hourlong morning workouts, coiled...
...seem undisciplined and chronologically impaired. In fact his memoir is cunningly designed for maximum suspense and beaucoup laughs. Going on 67, Barney has total recall of old grudges, past loves and 40-year-old hockey scores. But ask him what he uses to strain spaghetti and he goes blank...