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...most college students, the formerly dreaded SAT has become nothing more than an irrelevant number from the past. But for Jason Y. Shah ’11, the plight of SAT prep for high school students is the basis of his enterprise, INeedAPencil.com. Unlike more famous companies such as Kaplan and Princeton Review, which often charge several hundred dollars for a preparatory course, is geared toward low-income and underprivileged students.“WRITING” THE PROGRAMShah says he was inspired to start the project in fall 2006 as a junior in high school. While helping some sixth...
When the first U.S. patients fell victim to the new H1N1 flu, they may not have immediately thought to call their doctor or run to the nearest emergency room. Instead, they probably sat down in front of their computers and Googled "flu symptoms" or "fever" or "chills" or perhaps even "treatment...
...along the back walls to hear Engleithner, a 103-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who was incarcerated by the Nazis for having refused military service. His presentation was conducted in interview format, with questions posed by graduate student Johann Boedecker. Engleithner’s biographer, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, sat alongside the survivor to translate questions into his native Austrian dialect of German. Before Engleitner spoke, Rammerstorfer told the audience the story of how he first met Englietner and what he learned from him. “It was clear for me that this man was something special and that...
...scenes videos made of some of these efforts, it didn't seem like that bad an idea, and it certainly didn't occur to me to ask about who was making them. It didn't occur to me that at a fancy hotel in New York, where he sat with a potential donor to his antipoverty work, he would be targeted by a woman who would confirm that the man at the table was John Edwards and then would wait for him outside the hotel hours later when he returned from a dinner, wait with the come-on line...
Zeng Ping, a Chinese journalist who is one of 15 passengers under quarantine in Beijing, wrote on his blog that he was impressed with the confidence of the responding medical staff. "I sat down with the nurses to take a break after this long day, and I asked them if they were scared," wrote Zeng. "They shook their heads no. As young as they are, some of them had been through the SARS attack." So far, none of the passengers have shown any sign of the flu, and they have since been transferred to a hotel for further observation...