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...turn kids into celebrities. After four members of its 2002 graduating class—Javier Castellanos ’06, Medardo M. Martin ’06, Eileen Matias ’06, and Vanessa Mendez ’06—were all accepted by Harvard, the Miami Herald ran a front-page feature story with the headline, “Four Students From One School Beat Long Odds, Join the Elite in Their New Environment.” Just one percent of their peers typically attend college out of state, and Ivy League acceptances are rare occurances...
...effusive Herald article portrays the four teens as groundbreakers, blazing the path for their younger high school counterparts. However, thousands of miles away from their tropical homes, the students are quick to dismiss their minor celebrity status. “It was nice that we got recognition for it, but not just for us,” Martin says. “It was more for the school, the other students, and the teachers—especially them, because I feel like they deserve their spot on the stage...
Matias sees the article as “silly,” explaining, “Even some of my family members were commenting on the fact that the country is about to go to war and the front page of the Herald is about four kids going to Harvard. Come on. Let’s have some perspective...
...television website. Unlike the costly process of running cable wires through all the buildings, the cost to multicast each channel is only around $15,000, according to Morteza Rahimi, Northwestern’s vice president and chief technology officer for information technology, as reported by the Brown Daily Herald...
...When we finally find cures for cancers, they will reflect the secrets of how our genes fight some cancers and yield to others. Drugs like Herceptin for breast cancer and Gleevec for leukemia work by blocking the chemical signal that tells the cancer to grow. They herald the day when we can look back on the traditional slashing and burning of cancer patients as having been as primitive as bloodletting...