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...number of words taught in a semester of foreign language. At the very least, students shouldn’t instinctively recoil when we encounter any remotely scientific-sounding phrase—even if polite culture insists that we profess ignorance about science. But the challenge is two-fold: if those of us in science can’t make our research make sense to a poetry wonk, then our efforts are in vain. If we want our friends to understand our passion, we must make it more understandable than the latest issue of the European Journal of Biochemistry...
...party. And sometimes they see their job as to stop you from doing yours. So you have to find a way to work with them and, hopefully, to reach an honorable compromise without looking like you sold out. You have to make judgments about when to hold, when to fold. And I think that the whole American system was set up to force people to compromise. So I don't think it's a bad thing. But there are some things that aren't acceptable. That's why I try to go through in some detail in the welfare-reform...
DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic and dissident in the 1970s who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into the fold of future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (in which welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency failed. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said, "There would have been no success or victory without him, without...
...meters, the crews were separating and Navy had pulled ahead. The Midshipmen wouldn’t fold, and by race’s end, Navy had taken a lead of more than a length ahead of second-place Georgetown, finishing three and a half seconds ahead of the Hoyas...
...potential rewards, these days many immigrant children no longer view following their parents' path as a jail sentence. All the second-generation members of the Rama family, whose Greenville, S.C., JHM Group owns a string of more than 40 hotels, have worked in the family business since they could fold towels. Three are pursuing degrees in architecture, business or hotel management--by choice. "I knew I wanted to make the hotel business my career. My head was always in it," says D.J. Rama, 36, a Cornell M.B.A. and vice president of operations for JHM. "Work is the fabric that weaves...