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Excited by the idea, Carter began to revise her story for publication. “Editing was a lot tougher than the actual writing,” she says...
After the accident, she devoted herself to other interests such as playing the flute and Model U.N. While on a committee for Model U.N. during her freshman year of high school, she first encountered the idea of stem cells after being assigned the topic of human cloning as a delegate. In later reading Christopher Reeves’ autobiography, she became even more interested in the subject and found the outlet to pursue it when she came to Harvard...
...book by Jonathan R. Cole, The Great American University, refers to the University of Chicago as "our closest approximation to the idea of a great university." Hmm. Cole also traces the history of modern American higher education back to the founding of Johns Hopkins in 1876—not to 1636, which everyone knows is the year when the world officially began spinning on its axis...
That reluctance ruled for three decades until Saint Onge presented his findings to Johnson, a bookish researcher who isn't one to rock the academic boat with unsubstantiated suggestions. But Johnson was so impressed that he co-authored the journal article and is now quite open to the idea that the rock art he's studied his whole adult life might have something to say about the stars. "Whether we're right or not, I don't know, but we keep finding things that strengthen the idea," says Johnson. "And if we keep finding ethnographic support for it, I feel...
...better idea," he said. "We've all killed hadjis," Barker said, using an epithet common among soldiers for Iraqis, "but I've been here twice and I still never f___ed one of these bitches." Cortez's interest was piqued. They talked about it, the three of them, semiseriously but somewhat distractedly as they did other things throughout the rest of the morning. Sometimes Barker and Cortez would confer privately, sometimes Green and Barker would, and sometimes all three of them would talk...