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Becker, the editor of the Cresco Times Plain Dealer, says that Borlaug was so taken by a seminar at the University of Minnesota on the genetics of grain that he decided to dedicate his life to science...
...philosophy is that we’re responsible, whether it’s at the U.S. government or at Harvard, for maintaining and acquiring records of enduring value, whether it be electronic form, moving image or plain old paper,” Ide said. “Every institution will keep these records, and the future uses can be for historians, social scientists, writers and filmmakers...
...number cast in the 2000 presidential election--FANTASIA BARRINO, a single mom from High Point, N.C., was crowned the third American Idol. It was a controversial season in which guest judge Elton John cried racism, frantic voters decried the jammed phone lines and the state of Hawaii just plain cried for its third-place finisher. Barrino, 19, a bluesy belter who had been an early favorite, beat Diana DeGarmo, 16, by 1.3 million votes in the finale. It was, aptly, a fairy-tale ending for a woman named after a Disney movie...
...burial shroud, a symbol of his determination to die for his faith. He reads his address at high speed, his head down, his body occasionally rocking from side to side. Al-Sadr speaks to the crowd with no rhetorical flourishes or demagogic appeals but makes his purpose plain just the same. He takes a swipe at the Shi'ite hierarchy, which has withheld its support for his uprising. "When I die," he says, "don't let my death stop the resistance. Continue with the struggle and never disband the Mahdi Army...
...They only printed any entries where Norah may have been frustrated or just plain having a bad day,” the social studies concentrator wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson. “They apparently did everything short of outright calling her a terrorist and unstable...