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...studies as an English Literature concentrator, Kornberg said, “In the back of my mind, there was no serious doubt that I’d be going to graduate school in chemistry.” As a first year, he tried to enroll in a series of high-level chemistry courses, but he was not immediately accepted because he had never studied calculus. “What I gained at Harvard was extraordinary grounding in the physical sciences,” said Kornberg, who eventually took both Chemistry 20—which is still offered at Harvard today?...
...soon. It's only natural for Washington's attention to swivel toward Asia, with its rising powers, where U.S. ties are already extensive, and where it can deploy far more top-level expertise than modern Europe can. Some Americans dismiss Europe entirely. Kenneth Feltman of Radnor Inc., who surveys high-level "decision makers" for corporations and political candidates, says his U.S. decision makers have little sense of connection with Europe. One word always gets them nodding about Europe: "Whiney." Says Feltman: "Americans say, 'We used to worry about what Europe wants, but we can't figure...
...what it will recommend following months of intensive interviews with hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. officials - and it will report only after November's election - it is not constrained by the domestic political limits on the Bush Administration. And the fact that its deliberations on Iraq policy will include high-level meetings with officials from both Iran and Syria suggests that the group may have recognized that stabilizing Iraq will require agreements with some of the regimes the President had hoped would be swept away in his "new Middle East...
...resurgence of corruption that has accompanied China's phenomenal growth has been underlined in recent months by a series of high-level arrests in scandals involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Those detained have included the vice mayor of Beijing, the head of one of China's biggest property companies and senior government and private sector officials in Shanghai. Despite such well-publicized arrests, says Hu Xingdou, a professor of China studies at the Beijing Institute of Technology, there's little sign that the spread of corruption is being slowed by the government's actions. In Liuyang, for example...
...show has responded with a written statement to its fans: "Many of you are asking if Lonelyboy43 is real or not, and therefore if you should believe everything he says. Well, what is real, and what is imaginary? In math, aren't 'real' and 'imaginary' numbers both necessary for high-level calculations? Answer: Absolutely. So, don't think too hard about it, because Lonelyboy43 represents everyone, and the things he says are no more real or imaginary than those numbers, without which all the Internets probably wouldn't work...