Word: caltech
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Meeting them is a humbling experience. Mike Chou, 20, spoke little English when his family arrived in the U.S. from Taiwan in 1983. A Caltech physics major with a 4.1 grade-point average, he has already done pioneering research on solar flares. John Unger II, 21, a mechanical/ biomedical-engineering major at West Virginia University, spent the summer of 1989 in Hong Kong, helping Vietnamese refugees emigrate to the U.S. In September he leaves for India, where he will assist Mother Teresa. He plans to become a doctor and work in the Third World. Says he: "The best part about...
...that deliberately diluted Latino voting strength by splitting the county's then 2 million Hispanics among three districts. The board, charges A.C.L.U. attorney Mark Rosenbaum, is "the most powerful and enduring all- whites club of local government ever in this nation." J. Morgan Kousser, a political-science professor at Caltech, testified that "it was not possible to protect five Anglo incumbents without discriminating against the Hispanic population." The steps the board took to exclude Hispanics, he said, closely resemble those used to prevent blacks from voting in the Jim Crow South...