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...intelligent, quick to pick up academic challenges in class and explore new ideas. As a writer, she learned to express herself clearly and directly, skillful in putting criticism to good use. Interested in ideas for their own sake, she was able to excel in all areas—math, science, languages, history, and English...

Author: By Sylvia Mendenhall | Title: Drew at Concord | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...idea," William Golden said of his investment-banking career, "was to make a lot of money and then do interesting things." So the longtime chairman of the board of the American Museum of Natural History--who turned away from his first love, physics, because he hated math--promoted science wherever he could. As an adviser to President Harry Truman, Golden helped create the National Science Foundation and came up with the idea of a presidential science adviser, a post that still exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 22, 2007 | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...heavy metals for the course “Environmental Science in a Changing World,” Brown sophomores Megan E. Whalen, Matthew L. Wheeler, and Libby Delucia discovered that lead levels in certain campus buildings exceeded the federal limit. The lead content of the water in the applied math building peaked at 150 parts per billion—ten times the legal threshold. But this startling discovery was old news to Brown professor Steven P. Hamburg, formerly a Bullard Fellow at Harvard. “One of the recommendations in an old city like Providence is that you shouldn?...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don’t Drink the Water! | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

Except that's not exactly what the data shows. It's true that controlling for socioeconomic status (SES) eliminates most of the public-school/private-school differences in achievement-test scores in math, reading, science and history. But even after you control for SES, Catholic schools run by holy orders (not those overseen by the local bishop) turned out to perform better than other schools studied. True, as the study says, there are only a small number of religious-order schools. But the data suggests that the type of school a kid attends does affect how well he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Private Schools Really Better? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...League math major, Zornow may fall outside the typical DJ demographic, but he said that the DJ community is very accepting...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Wins World DJ Title | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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