Word: presenter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future, take a look at Achieva College Prep Centers, an education company. Give Achieva your child beginning in freshman year of high school, and the staff will help your teen pick classes, clubs, community-service projects and summer jobs, all with an eye toward creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from a Gap ad, will even make a teenager, as adviser Tilden Fang did one afternoon, cheerfully agreeable...
...Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar (a possessor of a Universal Mind), as well as the reincarnation of the Prophet Isaiah. At present, I am on hold, waiting to translate (die and take my body with me)." Last, a South Carolina minister said, "When we fully understand and accept the power of strenuous mental exercise to increase our capacity for works of genius, we may all ride through space on a beam...
...reported the discovery that "at least some Neanderthals butchered, ate and disposed of their kin" [SCIENCE, Oct. 11]. Whether or not modern man acknowledges having some Neanderthal genes, there is ample evidence that cannibalism, a horror of history, has been widely practiced among many past populations and in the present era for reasons of war, traditional rituals, famine and possibly, at times, convenience or even preference. So why knock Neanderthals for gnawing neighbors? If a Neanderthal could comment, he might protest, "Hey, we're only human!" KATHRINE E. BOBICK Lake Katrine...
...firms' recruiting strategies are two-fold: they give out toys and colorful brochures at an annual career fair, and then present the details at fancy information sessions...
Gray says her company "sees it as a chance to present itself on campus but it's by no means their most important recruiting tool...