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...Kanye "Calrissian" What the hell was Kanye West wearing when he accepted his award? And what did he do with Billy Dee Williams? His only competition for oddest wardrobe moment was from Teri Hatcher, who, in striving for the Jennifer Lopez Lifetime Achievement Award in Attention Getting, fell flat...
...submitted an application...prompting us to move forward.” The money was distributed based on the number of Katrina-affected students admitted, regardless of variables such as differing university fees or accommodation costs, according to Colby. The government offered a flat rate per student, but Colby said he did not know the exact figure. Williams, though, said that it was more appropriate to look at the money in terms of the “global use” it will be put towards than on a “per student” basis. Thirty-five students from...
...exploded beyond Harvard’s gates, none of the groups made it big. The problem might have less to do with Harvard than it does with Boston, as a whole. Intellectual MCs and DJs sell out the coffee houses, while gritty rhymes about violence and street life fall flat; artistic purity is coveted, making money is secondary...
...losing ground while countries like China, South Korea and India are catching up fast. Unless things change, they will overtake us, and the breathtaking burst of discovery that has been driving our economy for the past half-century will be over. In his 2005 best seller, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman argues that globalization has collapsed the old hierarchy of economic engine-nations into a world where the ambitious everywhere can compete across borders against one another, and he identifies the science problem as a big part of that development. Borrowing a phrase from Shirley Ann Jackson, president...
Nonmilitary research grants, meanwhile, have been essentially flat for the past 15 years. The one exception: the National Institutes of Health, whose budget doubled from 1998 to 2003. "Unless there's an emotional appeal, basic research is well beyond the time span of the next election," says Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel. "There is a very emotional attachment to research on cancer or chronic illnesses. It's much more difficult to say, What will the structure of the transistor look like in the next 15 years...