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...constantly afraid of failure, and leaving Singapore for the United States at the age of sixteen to study piano only made her feel more insecure...
...forced to close, says Cass, Britain would have lost vital pharmaceutical, biochemical and agrochemical research work - "and who's going to invest in the U.K. if a few demonstrators can drive a company out of business?" Once the government understood that, says Cass, it was "tremendous" in its support. Sixteen months after he was assaulted, Cass - a nonscientist - was honored by the Queen for services to medical research. "We happen to be the target now," says Cass, "but it could be someone else tomorrow. The government knows that." That knowledge has helped fuel the newest animal-testing controversy in Cambridgeshire...
Against the Buffaloes, who advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in last year’s tourney, Harvard should have its hands full as that newly discovered swagger is put to the test at the Subway Classic...
Outside of the Ivy League, other top institutions boast even more heterogeneous student bodies by income. At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 35 percent of students receive Pell Grants, according to the Century Foundation study. Sixteen percent of Amherst College’s student body receives Pell grants. And just down the river at MIT, 12 percent of students receive the federal grants...
...Sixteen Harvard students joined more than 250 other volunteers in John Kerry’s campaign’s “Extreme Canvass” weekend, which hit New Hampshire Saturday to drum up support in advance of the Jan. 27 primary...