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Shirley Tilghman, the president of Princeton, told me of two freshmen. Each had won the Westinghouse [now Intel] Science prize. The woman said, Gosh, I was so surprised. The young man said, I knew my project was great - I always knew I'd win. One thinks he deserves to win; the other is surprised. That was by the time they were freshmen in college. So, yes, it does start young. We all need to be aware of it and work to enhance girls...
...Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name, and, sure, Einstein studied there. On the court, however, Caltech is light-years away from a championship...
...losing team. "It keeps me sane," says Ben Faber, a freshman who plans to study theoretical physics. The school is a notorious pressure cooker, where even the summers are filled with high-stakes science. For example, freshman Ryan Elmquist will be mixing molecules for a Nobel Prize--winning chemist this summer. ("Ryan is going to be loving proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy," says the grad student supervising Elmquist's work.) Even a crushing loss can be something of an escape...
Linda J. Greenhouse ’68, the New York Times reporter and former Crimson editor who has covered the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 praise-filled years, will retire from her beat, the newspaper confirmed yesterday.It was not immediately clear when the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, who has covered the courts for longer than all but one supreme justice has served, would finalize the details of her severance from the Times. But several connoisseurs of the court system expressed their disappointment with the news yesterday.Greenhouse, who is 61, took the newspaper up on its offer...
...experience in a domain is a poor predictor of attained performance." Ericsson, 60, is a professor at Florida State who moved to the U.S. from his native Sweden in 1976 to study with Simon, co-author of the seminal chess paper. (Simon went on to win a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on decision-making.) Today Ericsson runs Florida State's Human Performance Laboratory, where Thomas and Monica participated in the robot simulations...