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...meet your husband? Rumor had it that a bright, slightly older unemployed Cornell dropout had entered my college social sphere. Word had it that he was mythologically attractive and heroic. Just my type. Fortunately my roommate knew him and introduced us and, lucky for him, he had wonderful and refined tastes in women. We connected. It was magical...
...failed to do - and he's betting that fiscal responsibility will yield more wherewithal to fund a Brazilian "New Deal" that includes everything from hunger eradication to land titles for squatters. This mix of ideologies is also evident in Lula's cabinet. The President himself is a high school dropout, former metalworker and labor union leader, but his handpicked Central Bank president, Henrique Meirelles, is a Harvard graduate and former president of BankBoston. Welfare Minister Benedita da Silva rose from a squalid Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and was Brazil's first black female Senator, while Vice President...
...wonders what Doc - he actually disliked the name, maybe because he was a college dropout and really didn?t have a Ph.D. - would have made of high-minded scientists, government officials and entrepreneurs, gathering near his beloved Cannery Row, to think about the consequences of a biological revolution. It was, of course, a revolution even he could not have anticipated. And not just because he died five years before Watson and Crick discovered DNA?s double helix (when his car was hit by a produce-laden freight train). Doc was an old-fashioned sort of biologist who combed tide pools...
...Today, there?s a questionable sense of modesty when Watson explains how he and Crick, a dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared...
...budget allotted for children through grade 12 is $6 billion short of the amount outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act for 2004. It cuts $1.5 billion in programs covering rural education, dropout prevention and physical education, among others. Ross Wiener, an education policy analyst at the Education Trust, a non-profit organization, commented that “if money indicates priorities, the president believes No Child Left Behind is one sixty-seventh as important as cutting taxes...