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...think that it's par for the course for the people who are running the world now. All the computer geeks in high school - Bill Gates is such a perfect example - are now running the world. Twenty-six year old guys who started their own web-sites are now millionaires, at the time when stuff like that in high school was left of the center. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers is such a perfect example because in high school he was into the trumpet and jazz, and that translated into incredible success for him. In a lot of ways...
...Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles D--. The rest of the name has been gouged out by some crude tool and the phrase 'Vile Stuff!' written in a dye-based substance." Plato praises Dickens' comic inventiveness in creating something called evolution and puts Origin on a par with Don Quixote in its depiction of a totally deluded fictional hero...
...male employees equally for equal work. It's the second time in two weeks that the Court has favored state governments over individual rights, and women's-rights advocates aren't pleased. At issue were two cases in which female professors at state universities sued for pay on par with similarly qualified male profs. The Justices sent the case back to lower courts with instructions to follow the legal model laid out by the Court in an age-discrimination case last week. There the Court ruled that states are immune to age-discrimination claims because they are protected...
...female chimp named Ai to count and manipulate numbers. In an article published in a forthcoming edition of Nature, researchers report that Ai was usually able to memorize and repeat sequences when flashed with any five numbers between 1 and 9 in random order - putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long shown the ability to memorize a number sequence by, say, counting to five, but researchers hadn't previously confirmed that the animals...
However, in seven games against Hockey East opponents, ECAC teams posted a sub-par 2-5 record...