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...chemical reactions; in Chicago. An Englishman, Pople taught himself calculus from a discarded textbook while in high school and became the first in his family to go to college. His program is still used in a wide variety of studies, ranging from the effects of pollutants on the ozone layer to the testing of drugs for the treatment of HIV. When he was knighted last year, the self-effacing Pople said that his achievements as a scientist were not great enough to warrant the honor. "It used to be you had to get on a horse and protect the Queen...
...Sometimes elections are essentially showpieces for democracy, and when you peel back the top layer, you discover some pretty ugly truths underneath,” he said...
...went back 38 years to when the adoption-agency worker placed Brian in my arms," she says. Brian says that he gained deeper insight into his own adoption. "I had no idea that my parents went through the same process we went through. We got to hear a whole layer of family history...
Undergraduate Council Chair Matt W. Mahan ’05 said last night that while he was unaware of the details of the new post, he feared the move might create another layer of bureaucracy between students and Gross’ administration...
...Over the past several years, China has ramped up its textile production and reduced prices. Many of its cashmere garments, however, are not made wholly of the downy undercoat of the goat, where the fibers are long and fine. Occasionally these fibers get mixed with hairs from the outer layer, which are short and thick. This means cheaper sweaters but also ones that are coarse and scratchy. They don't drape as sinuously or maintain their shape as well, and they don't provide the lifetime commitment most people seek from their cashmere. They may also be the product...