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Carlson's proposals for home science projects reach tens of thousands of people through his "Amateur Scientist" column in Scientific American. And his ideas have been noticed by, among others, Newt Gingrich, who devoted a paragraph to Carlson in an essay in the magazine Science published earlier this month...
...university grants a candidate "extra points" for a variety of reasons, including a high-quality essay, athletic participation, geographic location and parental alum status. These reasons can be divided into two categories--merit and non-merit. Clearly, a strong essay or a commitment to athletics is deserving of merit, whereas a person's skin color, residence or parents are hardly indicative of achievement. In lumping these two separate and distinct categories together, the University of Michigan heads down the wrong path...
...Campaigning on Oprah b. Making Oprah wish Al Haig was still campaigning c. The winner of O magazine's "What I Like About Me" essay contest d. Flogging a book...
Tyler Walton, 9, who submitted an essay for Scholastic's "How the Harry Potter Books Changed My Life" contest, has undergone arduous treatment for leukemia. "Harry Potter helped me get through some really hard and scary times," he wrote. "I sometimes think of Harry Potter and me as being kind of alike. He was forced into situations he couldn't control and had to face an enemy that he didn't know if he could beat...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...