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Take, for example, Hong Kong-born Yat-Ming Judith Leung, valedictorian of the class of '98 at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. Leung, a poster child for the kind of diversity and achievement sought by colleges, earned a 4.0 GPA, taking 14 advanced-placement classes, and was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, with a generous aid package from each. By her calculation, Stanford's package was the best--a mix of loans and outright gifts. Her father earned just under $30,000 last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale...
...record, are typical: Lennon uses the warm sounds of acoustic guitars and glowing synthesizers to limn scenes of romanticized domesticity. He draws inspiration from the curvaceous Beatle melodies of the late 1960s, but Into the Sun is an eclectic mix that wanders across genres, mutating into bossa nova, jazz, R. and B. and back again, echoing Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker, Stevie Wonder and Brian Wilson...
George and Alice Scheil never thought they were reunion types. That was before they attended their first National Wildlife Federation Conservation Summit. Since 1972 the Raytown, Mo., couple has attended 24 N.W.F. summits. This summer will be No. 25. They've scouted for loons in Nova Scotia and hiked their way through Estes Park, Colo., with their children and grandchildren. After all that, they can't imagine a more enlightening way to spend seven days in July. "Once we got hooked, we got hooked," says George Scheil, 74. "It's an excellent program, especially for families with young children. Because...
...nonlethal way for police to incapacitate violent criminals. Shaped like small flashlights or cellular phones and powered by store-bought batteries, stun rods deliver a series of millisecond-long shocks that cause muscles to contract, leaving the victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts...
...dangerous criminal with a nightstick or shooting him with a handgun, which can cause more severe injuries. Indeed, law agencies in the U.S. have used stun guns thousands of times, and there have been relatively few documented cases of serious injuries. "These devices don't kill people," insists Nova's president, John McDermit. Rick Smith, Air Taser's president, has launched a publicity campaign to rebut Amnesty's charges. In restricting stun guns "that could save lives, we're actually degrading human rights," he argues...