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...larger three-year study of memory and learning in rats that may offer new insights into Alzheimer's. His professor anticipates that the research will be published in a top-shelf neuroscience journal, and says that Sanchez will be listed as a co-author. That's a rare honor for an undergraduate, and Sanchez thinks it has given him a boost in his applications to medical school...
...ratio to rates of acceptance into grad school. And then there are the unquantifiable assets. At Davidson, townspeople and professors bake cakes for the winners of the freshman cake race and students boast that scattered around the campus are dollar bills held down by rocks, tangible evidence of an honor code so entrenched that if a dollar falls on campus soil, it stays there until the owner claims it. Kenyon in Ohio includes a paragraph in its acceptance letter that is entirely personal to the particular student: good job on the essay, nice season in basketball. The big schools...
...simultaneously Hillary's best asset and a subtle saboteur. When they appeared together at a $1,000-a-ticket fund raiser for Hillary last summer on Nantucket in Massachusetts, his introductory remarks were longer than her speech, recalls a prominent Democrat who was there. As the guest of honor's turn to speak finally came, much of the crowd migrated to the other side of the pool to gather where her husband continued to talk...
...they relied heavily on their Islamic faith, accepting the will of God on matters of life and death, defeat and victory. For these fighters, victory was assured because they had God on their side. But even defeat would have meant their martyrdom in battle, thus an even greater honor...
...lyrical, vibrant ballerina who became an international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual artists that when she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cortege Hongrois, that remains in the company's repertoire. Blunt, generous and emotional, Hayden, who taught until her death, dazzled in such diverse ballets as the lighthearted Stars and Stripes, with music by John Phillip Sousa, and Illuminations, an allegorical meditation on the life of Rimbaud. DIED. Mike Douglas...