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...foundation fights more than AIDS and malaria. Some of its recent grants are being used to battle these lesser-known diseases...
Roosevelt began to collect animal specimens, including fireflies and squirrels. He filled his notebooks with drawings and life histories of animals and insects, such as the common black ant, and then read Darwin and Huxley, who helped him ponder how Homo sapiens coexisted with the so-called lesser creatures. When the American Museum of Natural History unpacked 2,200 mounted creatures from the collection of the Verreaux brothers, French naturalists, the unabashed young Theodore donated his own mounted menagerie--a bat and 12 mice...
...lots of things.” Klitgaard says he still cannot provide a definitive answer as to why minorities lag behind but that this may be a drawback of affirmative action.“If elite universities did not compete so heavily for blacks these students might attend slightly lesser institutions where they might compete as intellectual equals,” the report stated.Although the Klitgaard Report also mentioned that Jewish students performed better than their test scores predict, Klitgaard now says that he did not have data on Jewish students at Harvard.BEYOND TEST SCORESBlack student groups from the College...
...says, “the stakes are so much higher at a place like Harvard because the spotlight is on you.”Stoner adds that if accusations of plagiarism, like those brought against Viswanathan earlier this year, had occurred at a lesser-known university, they would not have created the same “national fervor.”Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba also says that the controversy has drawn so much attention because of the “brand name” that Harvard carries. In addition, Verba says that the $500,000 advance given...
...recipe the bloggers respond to, though not always positively. "Those pictures of the Mercedes with the Kos license plates weren?t real, but people had a lot of fun with them," he says of a fake photo that circulated on the net for awhile. Reynolds points to Moulitsas? lesser-known network of baseball blogs as proof that the liberal firebrand is also a red-hot marketer. "The sports blogs underscore the fact that he is an entrepreneur," says Reynolds. "An entrepreneur gets ahead by figuring out what people want and giving it to them, and taking a cut... a manager...