Word: presse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to improve the education of those 175,000 students, the Board's goals include increasing affordability and access to public higher education, raising admissions standards, improving retention and graduation rates, promoting institutional efficiency and maximizing private fundraising, according to a press release issued yesterday by the Board of Higher Education...
...warning signs, neither did the people who saw the boys every day. The owner of the pizza parlor where they worked says they were model employees. For all the talk of fierce racism, Harris was well liked back in Plattsburgh, where his best friends, according to the local Press-Republican, were black and Asian. As for the neo-Nazi Klebold, his great-grandfather was a prominent Jewish philanthropist back in Ohio...
...environment that needed to be exposed to them. They had an energy and excitement I hadn't seen in a while. And even though they were in a new world with insane expectations thrown at them from a scary bureaucracy, they ran into people's offices with their little press passes completely fearlessly. If anyone was scared, it was that designer who couldn't adequately explain why she had no boyfriend...
...gizmos for a test drive. My timing was perfect, since the battle of the e-books is beginning to heat up. You can't find them at Barnes & Noble yet, but barnesandnoble.com last week started selling NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook ($499). And Rocket's main competitor, SoftBook Press, is now selling its notebook-size device for $299--if you agree to buy $19.95 worth of books monthly for two years. Given the slim library currently available for the SoftBook (fewer than 139 titles), the purchase plan could be a gamble...
...people who brought you last week's blitzkrieg of antismoking billboards may have an unlikely forebear: ADOLF HITLER. In his forthcoming The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press), Penn State history professor ROBERT N. PROCTOR suggests that Nazi researchers were the first to recognize the connection between cancer and cigarettes. The prevailing view was that British and American scientists established the lung-cancer link during the early 1950s. In fact, says Proctor, "the Nazis conducted world-class studies in this field." But their findings, because of the abhorrent medical practices used by the regime, were ignored. Hitler, a teetotaling...