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...Fifteen seconds." the 17-year-old sprinter laughs self-mockingly as she reveals her time for the 100 m at last week's South Asian Federation Games in Islamabad. She has reason to be embarrassed: her time was more than three seconds slower than the winning Sri Lankan's 11.81. "I don't think that's so good for the Olympics, is it?" She giggles some more, and her head scarf slips down, exposing thick auburn waves. Despite the fact that she is in a restaurant full of men, she leaves it there, too caught up in her own joke...
...found her success in the water business. She worked her way through college and earned a chemistry degree, but she always saw the business world as the way to climb out of poverty. Fifteen years ago, drawing on her meager savings, she founded Hyflux, a company that pursued a wide range of water-related ventures in Asia, from cleaning wastewater in China to investing in desalination plants in Singapore...
...Fifteen clients have already died in the one year since the lawsuit was filed. We don’t have any basis to delay the expeditious continuation of this case,” he said...
...Fifteen years ago, violinist Nigel Kennedy blew hot air up the skirts of the somewhat dowdy old lady that is classical music with his recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. He played sections fast, slow, ornamented. He played his own cadenzas. He had a punk’s hairstyle. He shot a music video in which the entire orchestra wore sunglasses during the “Summer” movement...
Over the last ten to fifteen years, Rubin has continued to be an innovator. The “Rubin Causal Model” gives people who were confused about how to think about effects a framework in which to consider them. Elizabeth Stuart, a graduate student under Rubin and a Teaching Fellow for his Quantative Reasoning 33 core, “Causal Inference,” attests to the flexibility of Rubin’s work. “Now [Rubin’s Model] is the standard for thinking about causal effects in economics...