Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overachiever--she sets up a booth just to get nomination signatures, has a mom who writes to Connie Chung for advice on her daughter's career, and has sex with the first "friend" she ever makes at Carver (oh, and this "friend?" He's a 40-year-old married math teacher). Tracy wants to win the election--has to win--because that's all she knows. That's how she lives life--chalking up victories and moving on to the mext contest (or creating them...
Administrators said the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Alliance, a pre-orientation program for women interested in math and science, will continue this year but may not survive to see the Class...
Otto K. Bretscher, a former Harvard math professor who is now at Colby College, was among one of Oreskovich's supporters for the award...
...hawked textbooks to college professors. He took the firm public and used the proceeds to invest in then obscure companies such as Lycos and Booklink--the latter of which he would later sell to AOL for $70 million. The soft-spoken, laid-back Connecticut native and Ohio Wesleyan University math major has never looked back, riding the trend to a personal net worth of $2.5 billion. Regrets? He passed up a chance to invest in eBay, the wildly successful Internet auction house. Wetherell figures that oversight cost him $4 billion...
Whatever the threats and intentions, the killings were, in the end, blindly indiscriminate. They shot at the math whiz and the actress, the wrestler, the debater, jocks, brains, band members, freshmen, seniors. They shot at the head football coach; they shot at the science teacher. "They shot at everybody," says senior Nick Zupancic, "including the preps, the jocks and the people who wore Abercrombie & Fitch clothes. But it would be hard to say they singled them out, because everybody here looks like that. I mean, we're in white suburbia. Our school's wealthy. Go into the parking...