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...Richardson, a rising star in the Democratic Party, has been a hugely successful public servant. His district has sent him to Congress eight times (in 1994 with 64% of the vote). And his President has sent him on a series of sensitive diplomatic missions: he secured the release of U.S. citizens from North Korea and Iraq, and this year traveled to Cuba to negotiate the release of three political prisoners. For his work he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...
BORN: March 23, 1948, Port Arthur EDUCATION: Lamar U, B.S., 1973; U of Texas, D.D.S., 1976 FAMILY: Wife, Roxanne Richardson; five children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Texas Army National Guard, 1969-75; Air Force, 1975-79 OCCUPATION: Dentist POLITICAL CAREER: Texas State Board of Dental Examiners, 1981-87; mayor of Woodville, 1982-84; Tyler County Republican chairman, 1990-95; Woodville School Board, 1992-95 ADDRESS: 1203 West Dogwood, Woodville...
Other recipients include University of Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel, Ohio State linebacker Greg Bellisari, Penn State quarterback Wally Richardson and University of Texas right end Pat Fitzgerald...
Cornell University researchers David Lee, Robert Richardson and Douglas Osheroff made their Nobel-winning discovery in 1972. They were working with helium-3, a rare isotope of the common gas, looking for a "phase transition," analogous to the changes in water when it turns from vapor to liquid and from liquid to ice. They had cooled a sample to within two one-thousandths of a degree of absolute zero (-459.67[degrees] F), the temperature at which atomic motion ceases...
...University's John A. DiBaggio, Northeastern University's John A. Curry, Suffolk University's David Sargent and Amherst College's Tom Gerety. Best Paid College Presidents Highest-paid college presidents nationally, 1994-1995 Amelia P. Morrow Crimson Pay Benefits Franklyn G. Jenifer Howard University $790,798* $9520 William C. Richardson, Johns Hopkins U. $587,048** $44,015 John R. Silber, Boston University $400,000 $165,018 Gerhard Casper, Stanford University $330,750*** $195,783 D. Walter Cohen, Allegany Univ. of Health Services...