Word: caltech
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...stated that it wishes to integrate diverse groups, but its main goal is to educate the most talented individuals--talent, according to its own definition. Harvard is a private university and has established its own criterion for admission in order to make itself distinct from other schools such as CalTech, Dartmouth, or M.I.T...
...black hole, have generally come to accept that discovery. And the stuff emitted from little black holes (and big ones too, but far more slowly) is now called Hawking radiation. "In general relativity and early cosmology, Hawking is the hero," says Rocky Kolb, a physicist at Fermilab in Illinois. Caltech Physicist Kip Thorne agrees: "I would rank him, besides Einstein, as the best in our field." And what if a mini-black hole explosion is finally observed? "I would get the Nobel Prize," says Stephen, matter-of-factly...
...foreigners is causing concern in academe. In no other field has the influx been so pronounced as in graduate engineering. An extraordinary 55.4% of last year's doctorates went to candidates from overseas (at Penn State the figure was 74%). "To a casual observer coming to our commencement," says Caltech Dean Arden Albee, "it looks like we're probably three-quarters Asian...
...days after his graduation from Annapolis, Poindexter married Linda Goodwin, a college student he had met while traveling with the Naval Academy debating team. In John's first year at Caltech, Linda bore the first of five sons, who now range in age from 27 to 16. Linda is as outgoing as John is reserved. "On personality tests we are on the opposite ends of the spectrum," says she. After their children started leaving home in 1980, Linda began studying for the ministry. She was ordained an Episcopal priest last December, and is associate pastor of a church in Gaithersburg...
...After Caltech, Poindexter served alternating tours at sea and in Pentagon offices. In 1981 he got to the White House as military aide to National Security Adviser Richard Allen. His first jobs were not demanding: "He put up maps on the wall before briefings," joked Allen later. Within months, however, he was reorganizing the White House Situation Room and updating the NSC's computer system. Writing computer programs has been one of Poindexter's abiding interests; he recently devised a new program to modernize the publications of Linda's church...