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Jack and George are from New York. Jack was the co-captain of the 1987-88 men's squash team, while George reached number-seven on the ladder...
...woodcutting"), Kennedy entered Harvard to study English literature. But he switched to biology and stayed on for a Ph.D., meanwhile coaching the Harvard ski team. In contrast to today's microbiologists, Kennedy says, he took the old-fashioned "butterfly route" in biology. He nonetheless rocketed up the academic ladder at Syracuse and | then Stanford, where he became provost in 1979. En route he detoured to Washington, first as a science adviser to Gerald Ford, then as Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Jimmy Carter. In the latter role, he was a strong public-interest spokesman, opposing use of ozone-damaging...
Lookout is the entry-level position for nine- and ten-year-olds. They can make $100 a day warning dealers when police are in the area. Sometimes the pint-size apprentice is rewarded with the most fashionable sneakers, bomber jacket or bicycle. The next step up the ladder is runner, a job that can pay more than $300 a day. This is the youngster who transports the drugs to the dealers on the street from the makeshift factories where cocaine powder is cooked into rock-hard crack. Finally, an enterprising young man graduates to the status of dealer, king...
DeLone had a 2-1 singles record during the fall, but the freshman has gradually moved up the ladder. Farrell had a big win over Yale's number-two player, Molly Quest, at the Eastern Indoor Championships...
...That's the spirit in which I took it, and the spirit in which I wish anybody else would take it." Others, though, see subtler motivations. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley cautions that some women may feel less feminine the higher up the ladder they go and thus have a greater need to advertise their attractiveness. "It's almost an unconscious way of balancing their act," she says...