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...choice of former Michigan Sen. Spencer Abraham for Energy Secretary is also questionable, considering that Abraham introduced legislation in 1999 to abolish the department; we wonder whether his views on the importance of the Energy Department's work have changed over the past months. Furthermore, we question whether Houston superintendent Rod Paige has the experience to run a Cabinet-level department, and we are amused by the choice of the governor of New Jersey as director of the Environmental Protection Agency...
...remember the moment. It was Harvard's first hat trick since Jan. 3, 1999 when defenseman Matt Scorsune '00 notched three in a wild 7-6 win at UVM. And it was the Crimson's first triple against RPI since Jan. 9, 1998, a 6-4 loss at Houston Field House. The captain that year, Jeremiah McCarthy '98, had an extremely rare offensive outburst in a losing effort...
President-elect George W. Bush last Friday named Rod Paige as his choice for Secretary of Education, extending their six-year working relationship. As superintendent of the Houston independent school district since 1994, Paige started a voucher program for struggling students, instituted a policy of "zero tolerance" for weapons, ended most exemptions from state tests and stopped social promotion--all policies Bush promoted as Texas Governor and presidential candidate. Paige, 67, was named the nation's top urban educator...
...Nerve Transplant In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet for the rest...
...education, Bush's self-proclaimed first love, it's a Texan. Rod Paige is superintendent of schools in Houston and presumably one of the inspirations for Bush's own education dreams. Bush dusted off an old slogan for Paige on Friday, calling him a "reformer with results," and added that Paige has shown in Houston that "urban schools can be excellent schools." Oh, and he's black, which makes three in so far in the inner circle...