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...Oklahoma. History classes teach America as experienced by both whites and Native Americans. Part of the curriculum is devoted to Northern Cheyenne culture and its complex language, which is still spoken by a few elders but almost no students. For decades, reservation schools were strictly English-only. The chairman of the Dull Knife board, John Wooden Legs, 60, remembers the punishment for speaking Cheyenne: "I had to kneel on beans for half an hour or stand in a corner with a bar of soap in my mouth...
...school operates on a thin shoestring indeed. But Chief Dull Knife College perseveres, holding out hope for a new generation of Northern Cheyennes. More than half its graduates now go on to four-year schools. One of them is Jennifer Wooden Legs, 29, daughter of the college-board chairman, whose academic career was postponed by five horrific years of meth addiction. ("Very awful stuff, very hard to get over," she says.) Jennifer, a single mother, will graduate next June, and plans to study psychology at Montana State University in Billings and then "come back and help." Chief Dull Knife College...
...identifying cell structure. His research, which he conducted along with biologists Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, used electron microscopy to identify the functions of mitochondria (the powerhouse of a cell) and ribosomes (proteinmakers), as well as other cell components. Having emigrated from Romania in 1946, Palade became chairman of the cell-biology department at Yale in 1973 and then the founding dean of scientific affairs at the University of California at San Diego...
...imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares each from Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. In return for the capital, the U.S. would collect a 5% dividend in the first five years. Although Wells Fargo chairman Richard Kovacevich resisted, Paulson gave the bankers no choice. It's partial nationalization, although in announcing the bailout Oct. 14, Paulson deliberately avoided using that term. "Today's actions are not what we ever wanted to do, but today's actions are what we must do to restore confidence...
...round, to buy toxic mortgage-related assets from the banks. The bank bailout will be funded out of that budget, and the Treasury still plans to start buying troubled assets in the next month or so. But that wasn't soon enough for worried investors or for Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who according to inside reports had been advocating for a recapitalization for months. Money flowed out of the stock market, including that of many large hedge funds. Some $2 trillion in market value disappeared in a week. "It was tunnel vision," says Republican Congressman Spencer Bachus, ranking member...