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...seems the Maryland native will have to stay home making up for time lost during trips to Florida earlier this winter...
...thought it was a fantastic experiment," said Greg Ledderman, Safman's teacher in the ninth-grade research course for which she developed the project. The course is part of a program for gifted students in Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools...
Safman founded her school's Political Action Club and will serve as a page in the Maryland state legislature this spring. She also plays varsity soccer...
...energy was prodigious. While her husband was in law school, she picked up a master's degree in education from Bowie State College in Maryland. Expecting her first child, she started to keep a diary in a spiral notebook, recording doctor's appointments, visitors, the deeds of the family cats. "This was my history for my children," she said. "I would have loved to know my mother's life that way." She threw herself into community work, leading a Girl Scout troop, working in day-care units and raising money for the local hospital. Teaching full time...
...math and science skills, Resnik chose to attend Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, from which she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since I was four that I haven't been...