Word: donee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African-American science majors eating lunch in a University of California Irvine dining hall are on the brink of brilliant careers. Aisha Kennedy, a chemistry major, has done ozone research with a Nobel-prizewinning professor. John Williams, a biology major, is off to Kenya this summer for a project on malaria transmission. And Brian McCurtis, a computer-science major with a summer job at Novell, is seeing years of hard work pay off. "I'd say my biggest problem is sifting through the job offers," he says. "There's been no job hunting...
...earliest grades and grows worse. Among California 10th-graders, 88% of Asians and 76% of whites go on to graduate, but only 61% of blacks and 58% of Hispanics do. Thernstrom and civil rights groups both say the early grades are where the most work needs to be done...
...each month: she gets a ride from her home in Corrigan, Texas, to the drugstore where she sometimes pays as much as $300 to keep her trays--she has a second one for bedtime doses--filled with Atenolol, Imipramine, Norvasc and other drugs. When she is done, much of her Social Security check is gone. "There's not very much left for food," she says. "But growing up during the Depression, it learned me how to save on groceries...
...disappointing to realize that the priorities of summer have shifted. It's not about relaxing anymore--it's about getting stuff done. Sometimes, when I'm standing on a crowded subway during rush hour or helping a particularly obnoxious customer find a book, I find myself longing for the sunny afternoons of New Hampshire, when I could sit on a boat in the middle of a lake without a cloud in the sky or a care in the world. Kevin E. Meyers '02, a Crimson editor, will be living in Winthrop House next year...
...echoing nearly every other presidentialcandidate, McCain promised to undo the damage hesaid was done to the prestige of the presidencyduring the Clinton administration...