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...always been a playmaker--on and off the field. In 1964, when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he ran a punt back 90 yds., a play that's still a team record. In the '70s, as the owner of several franchises, he was an African-American pioneer in the fast-food industry, and his policy of custom-making orders inspired Burger King's famous "Have It Your Way" campaign. Now the former football star is tackling his most difficult challenge yet: failing inner-city schools...
Nannerl O. Keohane will assume Hanna H. Gray’s seat on the seven-member Harvard Corporation in June, and was selected by the Corporation yesterday. Gray was a female pioneer in higher education, serving as the first female president of a major research university: she led the University of Chicago from...
...Another disease-fighting Pioneer is Jennie Mather of Raven Biotechnologies in South San Francisco. Like Jhoti, Mather is out to fight cancer, but her approach is radically different. She postulated that what really counts in a target protein - that is, a protein that causes a disease and that a drug would aim to disable - is the protein's surface. Since a body's natural antibodies never enter a diseased cell but do their work entirely on the cell's exterior, she reasoned, drugs should work the same way. Such thinking was heresy to her former employer Genentech, which analyzes...
Boosting the number of minority students in Advanced Placement (AP) classes is a priority for Ann Arbor officials, but part of their challenge will be to make the students feel less alienated once they get into them. Sterling Cross, a junior at Pioneer High School, is often one of just two or three black students in AP classes because, he says, many of his black friends who are also qualified to take them are intimidated by both the rigor and the prospect of going it alone. They are worried that if they have trouble, they won't get any help...
...American education professor from nearby Eastern Michigan University and the mother of two kids who have attended the Ann Arbor schools, to lead teachers and administrators through a cultural-competency course that fosters an appreciation for the perspectives of students and colleagues from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Separately, teachers at Pioneer High organized a faculty reading club to discuss books about race in hopes of making their colleagues more comfortable with the subject. "When we started, people avoided me in the hallways," says Amy Deller, a white science teacher who recruited members and leads the group. "But now colleagues grab...