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...drained but coherent," says Vetere. "He seemed pretty calm for a guy who had just cut his own arm off." Authorities tried to retrieve the arm later that day, but they had no more luck moving the boulder than Ralston; the rock is said to be big enough to fill the bed of a pickup. Ralston, now hospitalized in serious condition in Grand Junction, Colo., hasn't spoken publicly of his ordeal. His family has issued a statement attributing his survival to Ralston's "strong physical and mental condition...
Teachers, like librarians and bank tellers, weren't always primarily female. Men tended to fill those jobs until poor pay, low prestige and small chance for advancement drove them out. Today, just 9% of teachers in elementary and middle schools are men, down from 18% in 1981. The absence of male role models in the classroom concerns educators, parents and policymakers. "When men teach children, people think they couldn't make it in another industry," says Bryan Nelson, director of MenTeach, an advocacy group. That's changing with recruitment programs like Call Me Mister in South Carolina, which focuses...
Anthropology scholar Marla Fredericks will fill a junior faculty position within the department next year, Bobo said...
Lleal and Norin fill the lower positions for VCU and have cleaned up, so there will be no respite for the Crimson—even against the unranked players...
...just as short-sighted. I recently asked a celebrated Harvard biologist what major unresolved questions remained in his field. To my amazement, he said there really were none. All the big, important questions have been answered, he said, and the job of the next generation is simply to fill in the gaps...