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...stigmatized few will fall by the wayside, will remain stranded on the outskirts. But there’s something noble in the attempt. She’s not been an accomplice to white flight from the Hispanic label. She’s refused to become a player in this mad dash toward ascension on the racial hierarchy, to feed into the hysteria of becoming white.But, sometimes, it makes for a strained interaction. It first dawned on me that she might actually be white the first time—at age 18—I donned, or attempted...
...aims to build self-esteem in young girls, as a high-schooler in Miami and brought the program with her to Harvard. During her senior year, Hyde decided to turn the program into a non-profit organization. Hyde said that at first she felt like a “mad scientist” as she worked alone in an office without heating. Today Hyde has a new office and she said her organization has 250 girls in its program, over 80 volunteers, and a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. “Once I took the leadership step of putting...
...Bean Mad Bomber hat ($36, 800-809-7057 or llbean.com...
...read them under the byline of a novelist as seasoned as Crichton. It's possible he is trying something new here, that he deliberately opted out of his usual central driving plot to present us instead with a panoramic Babel-style view of a whole society gone genetically mad, I tell you, mad. If so, the experiment, like so many he describes, has gone disastrously wrong. This kind of messiness doesn't suit him at all. Crichton's narratives work because they're as gleaming and orderly as nature is frighteningly chaotic. Not that he's wrong...
...pretty cool if, say, you work in industry. So too are the paper batteries of Enfucell or the flexible sensors of DeepStream. Sensors are a real big deal on this particular planet. So is medicine, where no breakthrough is small, whether it's Amorfix's blood test for mad cow disease or HealthSTATS' wristwatch-like device that measures blood pressure. Either one could save your life. And speaking of lifesaving, how about Aresa's landmine-detecting plant? Not as hip as Technorati, a Web-search wonder, but in war's bloody wake, this is one weed that will be appreciated...