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...what does it take to ace the Putnam? It's not about memorizing theorems. "The Putnam does not try to measure mathematical knowledge," says Leonard Klosinski, director of the competition and a professor of math at Santa Clara University in California. "What it does test is the ability to solve very challenging problems in a fixed period of time. Students who do well are mathematically gifted, very quick and highly creative." The past winners aren't exactly household names--unless you live in an extremely enlightened household--but they include Richard Feynman and Kenneth Wilson, two Nobel prizewinners. Three Putnam...
...agencies that fall under the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But few other contracts have been signed thus far, as the feds slog through the swampy process of budgeting, appropriating and procuring. "We've all been waiting for the wheelbarrows of money to show up," says Leonard Pomata, president of the government division of webMethods, based in Fairfax, Va. "Aside from the emergency funding that has been spent on guards and gates and guns...there hasn't been a significant amount for new initiatives...
...Mira F. Leonard ’04 haughtily declines pot, alcohol and sex. “I did that shit in high school,” she lies...
...having a huge party this weekend. One student who won’t be in attendance is Mira F. Leonard ’04. “I would rather drink myself into oblivion in my own room and have my roommates carry me to UHS than go to that party,” she said as she uncorked a bottle of bourbon. This just in: Leonard’s roommates hate...
Three studies presented in the journal Science last week help resolve all these questions. The first paper addresses where the wolf-to-dog transformation took place. Biologist Jennifer Leonard, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, and her co-authors collected the remains of dogs buried in North, Central and South America before Columbus showed up (and thus before interbreeding with European dogs could have taken place) and sampled their mitochondrial DNA, or MTDNA, which is passed on only from the mother. If these ancient American dogs had arisen locally, their MTDNA should have been similar...