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Black colleges are also more likely to provide vital encouragement to marginal students. Sulayman Clark, 35, was on the verge of dropping out of mostly white Temple University when he transferred to 152-year-old Cheyney University in Cheyney, Pa. Bolstered by attentive professors, he not only graduated but went...
The staggering expense and sheer size of the genome project were what bothered scientists most when the idea was first broached in 1985 by Sinsheimer, then chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz. "I thought Bob Sinsheimer was crazy," recalls Leroy Hood, a biologist at the California Institute...
But Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior. Not that there are any comfortable conclusions. Woods' idealistic young...
But instead of clear priorities, the President offered a clutter of programs, almost all marginal adjustments in the status quo. By awkwardly trying to match the concerns of a liberal Democrat with the means of a parsimonious Republican, Bush ended up with an incoherent philosophy that might be dubbed Reaganomics...
Hayek, an economist Reagan admires, preached that the free market conquers all. During the first term, such nostrums were handy tools for trimming some obsolete domestic programs and reducing marginal tax rates. But when Reagan reached those goals, he lacked intellectual material for a second act worthy of the first...