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...quality of your thesis. “How does one select a successful topic?” you ask. There are three questions to keep in mind. Is your topic extremely obscure? Does it have a colon in its title? Did you request and receive an obscene amount of grant money to do research and then blow most of it at a strip club in Paris? If you answered yes to these questions, then you will probably win a Hoopes prize. If not, you can always use your thesis as a doorstop. Meanwhile, just hobnobbing with the department?...
...career choice, those schools provide exposure to different subjects as well as preparation for jobs that are not easily "off-shored," such as auto repair, cosmetology and building inspection. They're one of higher education's best-kept secrets--and a bargain compared with four-year colleges. GEORGIA R. GRANT COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO San Mateo, Calif...
Nadal is James Dean to Federer's Cary Grant. With his shoulder-length hair, garish Capri pants (he will ditch them for the Open, he promises), sleeveless shirts that show off biceps that bulge like the Pyrenees, and hit-and-grunt technique, Nadal is the loudest player on tour. "He's like the bulls running down the street in [Pamplona]," says Bollettieri. "The bulls are going to run over every goddam thing--houses, anything." Another Nadal trademark is the leaping fist-pump; he leaves no emotion in the locker room. "This is who I am," he says. "I do what...
...counsel an inmate in a prison environment," she says. But, she adds, "the next critical step is to complete the research necessary to determine if this new interactive virtual reality theater is effective in helping people with communication disorders." Meanwhile she has just received a Presidential Research Initiative Grant for $80,000 to create four more virtual reality films to Case Western students...
...fertilized egg from lodging in the uterus. The FDA first approved Plan B, now owned by Delaware's Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., for use with a prescription in 1999, but the controversy erupted in 2003. That's when FDA officials rejected the recommendation of their scientific advisers and refused to grant Plan B approval for over-the-counter use. The acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the time, Dr. Steven Galson, said the drug should not be sold over the counter because there was insufficient evidence to suggest that teenagers would be able to self-administer...