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...feel that students and alumni of African descent have specific issues and needs that are not fully addressed in any other forum," Anderson said...
...protecting some children from disorienting noises and lights, providing others with attention-grabbing stimulation. But when parents and therapists collaborate in an intensive effort to reach these abnormal brains, writes Greenspan in a new book, The Growth of the Mind (Addison-Wesley, 1997), three-year-olds who begin the descent into the autistic's limited universe can sometimes be snatched back...
Unless you're of Slavic descent or adept in Russian, you probably haven't closely examined the Slavic Languages and Literatures section of the course catalog--and you probably don't know about a gem of a course, Slavic 131: "Slavic Science Fiction...
...first nonstop, round-the-world balloon flight, the 174-foot "Global Challenger" experienced technical problems and the three-man crew was forced to land in the Algerian wilderness. "At one stage I was standing by the door chucking out everything movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement for a sick crewman, who climbed outside the capsule to jettison a one-ton fuel tank, slowing the rapid fall. "We owe a debt...
...groups that are least represented include urban, less advantaged East Asian-Americans, and students of South- and Southeast Asian descent...