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...been taking a nap on this issue for far too long. These are people who are convinced that the West is evil and America is 'Darul Harb,'" the Place of War. The community leader, who requested anonymity, describes a growing radicalized cadre of mostly Middle Eastern men who aggressively recruit young Muslims. These men often drive BMWs and Mercedes and lure followers with money, he says...
Back in 1983, when Dr. John Mendelsohn applied for a National Cancer Institute grant to study growth-factor receptors in tumors, he was flatly rejected. His idea--to create antibodies that would find and bind to tumor cells, blocking their ability to recruit the nutrients they need to flourish--was considered unproved and risky. "He had a vision going way back that antibodies might have an important role in the treatment of cancer," says Dr. Stuart Kornfeld, one of Mendelsohn's mentors at Washington University in St. Louis...
...school graduates last year than they had projected. Scotty Andrews, graduate-placement director at the University of Miami's business school, estimates that less than a fourth of the members of this year's graduating class have jobs. "It seemed like every major company that had traditionally come to recruit canceled--Disney, IBM, Citicorp," he says. Cornell's business school has gone so far as to turn itself into a pseudo-consulting firm, peddling its jobless M.B.A.s as cut-rate temps...
...should decide that his future lies in New Jersey, then Afro-American studies—led by a lame-duck chair—may not be able to raise the necessary funds and recruit the necessary faculty...
Then again, many of the professors Gates helped recruit say that Gates’ persuasive personality may be able to lure academics to Harvard—even if he is on his way out the door...