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Hoping to highlight the "exciting,nontraditional choices available" to graduatessearching for opportunities outside of academia,Anderson plans to invite Harvard alums to leadcolloquia within the department, aiming both "toaid students in defining their career goals [and]to discuss both conventional and alternativecareer opportunities available to Ph.D. chemists...
...live with this constant threat? After the U.S. bombed Afghanistan and the Sudan, the precautions taken in America filled highlight reels here for days: cranes moving gigantic barriers around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...
Instances of these and other health and safety concerns which cropped up during the last academic year highlight the question of how to successfully prepare first-years for the challenges ahead...
...indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight and tomorrow night and down an endless trail of nights on into history, was this: Mark McGwire hugging everyone he could lay his big meaty hands on. Players. Coaches. His son. The Maris family, nearly all at once. Mark McGwire seemed to want to share...
...younger echelon has never been quite so sassy before--a fact that has served only to highlight the maturity of their eminently graceful elders. While preparing for the French Open in May, Hingis noted that Graf--who had just announced her return after an injury--was past her prime. ("Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," says Graf.) At Wimbledon, Venus Williams threw a volcanic tantrum over a line call in her battle against Novotna. (Novotna on the histrionics: "I don't even look at her.") And the younger crew is not shy about its narcissism. When British tabloids published...