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...grandfather, Albert Adomanis Sr., was a Lithuanian immigrant who worked on the docks of South Philadelphia. He did not finish grade school and never went to high school, much less college. He lived a hard, rough, unforgiving life of manual labor, and died relatively young. Had one found him along the filthy Delaware River, after he finished tying down a freighter, and told him that two of his grandsons would attend Harvard, he would not have known whether to laugh or to cry. While seemingly clichéd, the story of my grandfather has a large bearing...
...Reverend Graham Taylor grabbed the spotlight like a Quidditch seeker seizing the Golden Snitch last week, when the news service Reuters reported that Taylor, a bestselling British fantasy novelist, had been kicked out of a grade school after allegedly calling Harry Potter...
...Gutenberg, meet my little brother. He is a not-so-lean, preteen, book-loathing student of the fifth grade. Even when bribed to read with a late bedtime, cookies and milk—for him, the equivalent of a postponed death sentence and a last supper at Ruth’s Chris—he abstains, staring all too wistfully at the nearest blank television screen. So in searching for a way to challenge his plastic mind without turning him and it off, this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family...
...open for less than two years and is located in Boston’s financial district. The independently run restaurant is the product of a life long friendship. Ackil and co-owner Jon J. Olinto made plans to start their own businesses when they first met in the fifth grade. Ackil and Olinto maintained their friendship into adulthood, but at times, it appeared their dream of owning a business might not materialize. After graduation, Ackil put his independent business hopes aside to start a career in business consulting. “It turned out that I really hated consulting...
...With the two countries mired in a state of low-grade tension, it's not surprising that their efforts to be (and be seen as) the region's heavyweight have entered a new and higher frontier. Both countries are focusing on increasingly visible and expensive manned missions and unmanned lunar landings within the next two decades. Space exploration is one area of national endeavor where developing China, the third nation to put a man in orbit around Earth, is not scrambling to catch up with its wealthier, more technologically advanced rival. Make no mistake, says Joan Johnson-Freese, the chair...