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Vowler also added that he hopes to donate money to various Harvard scholarship funds in the future...
...marketplace be as effective an arbiter of quality scholarship as refereed journals? Perhaps. Deliver too many bad findings based on sloppy science and you won't remain in business for long. Since Neurosense's revenues are up threefold in the last year, you don't need a brain scanner to see that it and its legitimate competitors will likely be attracting business for some time to come...
...many ways, the underlying problem is not merely one of anatomy but of psychology as well. The pressures to compete earlier and earlier in life--because winning an athletic scholarship demands it, for example, or simply because everyone else is doing it--can be immense. And it's not always clear if it's the parents, coaches or kids themselves who are pushing the hardest. "We have a culture that is tremendously out of balance, in which you have nothing but competition," says Brooke de Lench, a onetime squash and lacrosse player who wrote Home Team Advantage, a newly published...
...continue all this hypercompetitiveness," says Greg Smith, 18, a senior in Charlotte, N.C., who cringes as he notes how, when history projects were announced at his high school, there was a literal footrace to the library to be the first to get the key books. He won a Morehead scholarship to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a full ride offered to the very top students. It was not only the money but also the feel of the place that drew him. "The Ivy Leagues just seemed like a very intense four years where I'd get more...
...investing in Ghana was even more personal than for most African Americans because his father is Ghanaian. That side of Osei-Agyeman's family has worked as farmers for generations--a tradition broken only when his father emigrated to the U.S. to go to college on a track scholarship. Osei-Agyeman returned to the family last year, took out a 70-year land lease on 36 acres in Ghana's eastern region and converted it into a mango farm. "I wanted to go back on my own and get into farming, and when I ran the numbers, a mango farm...