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...poor performance of African Americans is still an issue. “I still support affirmative action as strongly as ever,” he writes in an e-mail. “Just why African American students tend to perform below what prior grades and test scores would predict remains an unsolved problem.”DOUBTING DIVERSITYThe University defended its admissions policies that considered race a factor in an amicus brief it filed with other universities in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California and again in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger...
...sixties, Leder chose to join the National Institute of Health (NIH) to avoid the draft. Once in Bethesda, Leder wound up in Marshall W. Nirenberg’s lab, where he and others established the critical link between messenger RNA and protein, allowing scientists for the first time to predict protein sequences encoded by mRNA.“I saw the possibilities of working in science research,” says Leder, who abandoned initial plans to practice clinical medicine to work in the laboratory.Since the landmark experiment that deciphered codons of the standard genetic code, Leder has also made...
...Sydney, Costello was in full boom. Heckling the man who was about to cut their taxes by $100 a week was not this crowd's style. Where a property salesman employs a gavel, Costello does a PowerPoint floor show with happy hands and a jerky delivery. You can never predict when Costello's number will switch from the piano of crisis to the forte of triumph. So an audience tends to ride out the bumps with him. "Where the bloody hell were you?" Costello shrieks, referring to an era of high indebtedness when Labor leader Kim Beazley was in charge...
...explaining what she's doing to herself." Omg. Another plus, he says, is that you can show these messages to your mates at school the next day. With newer phones now equipped to send photos and video messages, the next step in this lewd dance isn't hard to predict. "Yeah, that happens a bit," says Lindon. "But it costs too much...
...seventh highest divorce rate in Europe, 2.8 a year for every 1,000 people, according to Eurostat (at top is the Czech Republic). But is Britain about to leap up the chart? It could. Landmark rulings by Britain's House of Lords last week may, some lawyers predict, make England and Wales a divorce magnet, because the rulings have been so generous to financially dependent spouses. In one case, the judges upheld a $9.4 million award to a woman who'd been married to a fund manager worth $60 million. In the second case, the judges lifted the five-year...