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...clean stuff. “It’s really hard to find music that’s not offensive,” said Santoro. But the tone of the class stays funky and upbeat with tunes from Eve, The Roots, Salt N Pepa, and Tribe Called Quest. She’s even known to break out a little Britney...
...student body had one minority pupil in a class of 225. Whitaker, now 70, made it a top priority to increase black and Hispanic enrollment, a task he had previously undertaken as dean of the B school at the University of Michigan. One reason for his quest was purely pragmatic. Having more minority students attracts more corporate recruiters, Whitaker says, and this draws more, better-qualified applicants to the school. Today blacks and Hispanics account for 15% of the student body...
...University of California in San Francisco in the 1970s, and later at Genentech, Ullrich worked on cloning the gene for insulin. His research led to the development of the first commercial medical treatment, human insulin for diabetes, produced through recombinant dna technology. Since then Ullrich has been on a quest to battle cancer by concentrating on signal transduction, a means of communication between cells in the human body. From this work came the drug Herceptin, the first treatment to aim at the cells that cause breast cancer. Ullrich's approach is not to target the cancer cell itself...
...victory means Harvard continues its undefeated season and its quest for the Ivy league title. The Crimson’s 6-0 (4-0 Ivy) record is its best since...
...still years in the future. Jago explains that scientists in the late nineteenth century still wrestled with some of the great mysteries of the natural world: What powered the sun? What produced a magnet? And, most central to the book, what caused the northern lights? Birkeland made it his quest to answer these questions...