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...close, however, the two could not be more different. Willowy, auburn- haired Wintour, 38, is cool and withdrawn; Brown, 34, a shorter, shapely blond, is brassy and outgoing. Their editing styles are as distinct as their looks. Brown is verbal, literary, with a knack for matching writer to subject, while Wintour is a visual creature, renowned for her eye for style...
Assistant Professor of Japanese Haruko Iwasaki says that although she does not feel she has been a victim of discrimination, a distinct discrepancy is evident in the system. While most of the tenured faculty members in her department are white males, Iwasaki says those at the junior faculty level "are mostly women. The language side is 90 percent women and minority...
...absence of entertainment. Sidney Monas, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, describes Raisa's paper, a synopsis of which is available at the Library of Congress as well as the Lenin Library in Moscow, as "slightly better than average, not altogether unorthodox, but with some distinct liberal tendencies." She pioneered sociological survey methods at a time when sociology was not considered a proper field of study in the Soviet Union. For example, she found that the lower a peasant's education level, the more likely he was to own religious icons...
...these immune cells produce such diversity was elucidated during the mid- 1970s by Immunologist Susumu Tonegawa, now at M.I.T., who in 1987 was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievement. Tonegawa proved that the B-cell genes that dictate the production of antibodies occur in distinct segments. These pieces, like cards in the hands of a Las Vegas dealer, are constantly and speedily shuffled into different combinations. Coupled with mutations that occur as B cells divide into plasma cells, such genes, in theory at least, could account for as many as 10 million antibody variations. Other scientists have shown that...
Many students say, however, that the house seminars offer a distinct advantage over departmental seminars.. "House seminars don't have to fall into any departmental criteria. That frees you up to teach exactly what you like," says Matthew Snyder '88, who took Nicholi's seminar on Freud...