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...noticed about here, is that people talk funny,” he said. About two weeks ago, the Butcharts attended a local political dinner and mentioned their plans to attend the game in Boston. Soon, they became local stars through an article in their hometown newspaper, The Madison County Journal. This is not where their fifteen minutes of fame ended. As soon as they got settled in at the game, the girl sitting next to them asked, “Are you the people with the t-shirts from Mississippi?” Tom recalled. “Before this...
...Wall Street Journal article by Daniel Golden—a 2004 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles exposing the huge admissions advantages afforded to privileged white students—exposed what might appear to be another disturbing college admissions trend. Some analyses of standardized test scores show that Asian-American applicants, on average, must attain higher scores to snag admission to some of the nation’s most desirable schools. But these statistics, while initially disturbing, are the result of a just and well intentioned system of affirmative action in college admissions. That system should...
...major overhaul, and it's human nature--even among scientists--to resist change. What started off as hallway grumbling, however, has grown into an ugly public ruckus, thanks to an unofficial employee blog www.cdcchatter.net and a few well-directed Freedom of Information requests from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
...first to examine the long-term effects of low carbohydrate diets—has found there is no association between such diets and an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). The study, which appeared in the Nov. 9 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, relied on data collected from HSPH’s Nurses’ Health Study, a sweeping project which collected data from over 120,000 women starting in 1976. HSPH researchers also found that there was an association between a lowered risk of heart disease and low-carb diets that were high...
...When I got into Harvard, the other parents were like, ‘How the fuck did she get in?’” she says. While Zhang and the rest of Harvard’s future Class of 2008 were preparing their college applications, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel L. Golden ’78 was writing a series of articles on the inequalities of admissions practices at top-tier universities that would earn him a Pulitzer Prize. Many of the articles, and the vast majority of Golden’s book?...