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After earning an M.B.A. at Harvard, he did research on education policy that led to a job at the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Secretary Richardson soon drew him into his personal circle. As Richardson toured the Nixon and Ford Cabinets -- serving as head of Defense, Justice and Commerce -- Darman followed. Richardson, a problem-solving progressive who wore his Republicanism lightly, even served Jimmy Carter as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. With that political lineage and a wife describing herself as "alas, a good old-fashioned liberal...
...many ways, home ownership represents a sense of how we are doing," says Denise DiPasquale, a research fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. "So if people own, they are making it over a financial and emotional threshold." While the obstacles may be daunting, many proud and resourceful new owners are showing that the threshold can still be crossed...
Norton's insights come from first-hand research. For the past six years, she has been regularly videotaping, from infancy, about 40 children born to young mothers living in the most blighted, impoverished pockets of Chicago. She lets her camera roll for up to four hours at a time, capturing the ordinary rhythms and interactions of a child's life at home. Reviewing thousands of hours of ) tapes, Norton found that references to time were rare. Most parents hardly ever provided instructions like "Finish lunch so you can see your favorite TV program at 1:30," or even sequential statements...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...
...mammal veterinarians Rae Stone and Jay Sweeney. Rather than ricocheting around a concrete pool, the dolphins frolic in a protected saltwater lagoon. "Everything about this place is fake, except for the dolphins," observes a guest wryly, as she wanders by. The Dolphin Quest program offers a model environment for research and study, as well as a unique aquatic encounter for the guests. "These animals can humble anyone," says trainer Christian Harris. "Guests may arrive at the dock complaining about something or other, but they get in the water with the dolphins and are smiling in about ten seconds...