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...This was all before Tiger Woods became famous and elevated discussions of mixed-race issues to the forefront of the American consciousness," Walther writes...
Einstein's general theory of relativity transformed space and time from a passive background in which events take place to active participants in the dynamics of the cosmos. This led to a great problem that is still at the forefront of physics at the end of the 20th century. The universe is full of matter, and matter warps space-time so that bodies fall together. Einstein found that his equations didn't have a solution that described a universe that was unchanging in time. Rather than give up a static and everlasting universe, which he and most other people believed...
...company with a market value of some $20 billion, Pierre Omidyar hit the delete key. Months before eBay's IPO--the traditional media coronation for a Silicon Valley wunderkind--he stepped aside in favor of onetime Hasbro exec Meg Whitman. "I've obviously tried to push her to the forefront," he says. "Meg's the public face of the company." Omidyar moved to France in part to get in touch with his roots--he was born in Paris and lived there until he was six. But he's also working on eBay's expansion plans, making regular visits...
...pamphlet goes on to say that the RUS initiative will be a "consciousness-raising effort to bring issues of gender to the forefront of campus discussion...
Jeanne S. Chall, an influential researcher who for decades was at the forefront of the debate over how people learn to read, died Saturday of heart failure at her Cambridge home...