Word: gao
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...homeland. Li is an invaluable resource. China's post-Tiananmen generation has produced precious few serious authors, and virtually none who can write with Li's fluency in English. It seems that exile has become a requirement for China's most honest writers?the country's only Nobel prizewinner, Gao Xingjian, lives in France?but Li's exile may prove short-lived. In 2004 Li applied for permanent residency in the U.S., but her first attempt was denied on the grounds that she had not sufficiently distinguished herself in her field of endeavor to earn a green card. (She still...
Sources: BBC; Conservation International; GAO; www. sigir. mil; New York Times...
Students at élite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20, is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters from consulting firms and investment banks showed up on campus last fall, she went on several interviews, and she will take a job as a consultant after graduation. She says, "They love the fact that science majors can think analytically, that we're comfortable with numbers." Increasingly, science majors love those companies back. Gao says, "There are no guarantees if you go into science, especially as a woman. You have to worry about getting...
...Chicago: "It's marketed as--I don't want to say dead end but sort of 'O.K., here's your role, here's your lab, here's what you're going to be working on.' Even if it's a really cool product, you're locked into it." Like Gao, Pearce is leaning toward consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to work in a cubicle all day--as opposed to $60,000 in a team setting, plus a bonus, plus this, plus that--it seems like a no-brainer...
...continue to find an alternate plan. But it certainly won’t be Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, or “morning-after pill,†that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed unfit for over-the-counter distribution last May. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency, and its role is to gauge the safety...