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...institution that employs and educates some of the best and the brightest and supports the exchange of new ideas, the study says the University produces employees and patents products that add to the community financially and intellectually--the "intellectual capital...
...Chinese got anything, they didn?t get very much." Will the reorganization help? Thompson doubts it. The labs do have some inherent porousness ? mostly the results of a college campus-like atmosphere ? yet it is that atmosphere which is critical to attracting the field?s best and brightest in peacetime. President Clinton opposes the shake-up but probably won?t risk a fight over it, not when the larger defense bill passed the Senate 93-5 and the House 375-45. And if the plan won?t slow down Chinese spying much, it is at least a minor blemish...
...such a young age? Because of a growing recognition that colleges need to reach out if they are to attract the best and brightest applicants from an increasingly diverse population, and because parents are more anxious than ever about their children's prospects for higher education, "tracking"--or predetermining kids' educational and career paths--has become the latest strategy in the college-admissions game. "Kids need to hear the message that anyone can go to college and need to know how to make that possible," says Diana Phillips, director of the U.S. Department of Education's middle school initiative, Think...
...struck or a plane has crashed, Senator Ted Kennedy has been left to marry his family's private tears to those of the nation. He has done it so often and so well that we remember him most fondly for the goose-bump lines in his eulogies; he shines brightest in the darkest suit...
...Sakharov was groomed less for political protest than for scholarly solitude. He taught himself to read at four, and his father often demonstrated physics experiments--"miracles I could understand"--to him as a child. At Moscow University in the 1940s, Sakharov was tabbed as one of the U.S.S.R.'s brightest young minds. After earning his doctorate, he was sent to a top-secret installation to spearhead the development of the hydrogen bomb. By 1953 the Soviets had detonated one. It was "the most terrible weapon in human history," Sakharov later wrote. Yet he felt that by building the H-bomb...