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...Knecht Cup, and then-No. 1 Princeton in the same event.With a No. 1 ranking intact, Radcliffe looked poised to make a run for a sixth national championship. In fact, after disappointing dual losses to Wisconsin and Princeton in recent years, last spring’s early successes spoke volumes about the potential of the 2006 lightweights.But it was not to be, as the team ended its season with a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and yet another bronze at IRAs. Despite the June disappointment, the year was a success on some fronts. The team’s number...
...children’s or students’ services,” he said. “And when they do, they don’t know what to say.” Fellow in Center for Genomics and Proteomics Christine Queitsch, leader of a laboratory where Wang worked, spoke of him as “an exceptionally gifted young scientist.” “In fact,” she noted, “his thesis proposal just got approved two weeks ago.” After a song by C-Sharp, Harvard’s Asian...
Kingsland was found dead March 21, according to the New York Sun. Acquaintances who spoke to the Sun described him as “an unending trove of historic facts of the Upper East Side” who was himself surrounded by an “air of delightful mystery.” The Sun said that “it was unclear where his primary residence was,” and that New York’s well-known Kingsland family did not believe he was related to them...
...into business. After a period of self-exploration which included teaching English in Italy, Fiorina enrolled in the MBA program at the University of Maryland, earning an MBA in 1980. While rising through sales at AT&T, Fiorina encountered challenges as a woman in the workforce. She spoke about how before her first sales pitch, her co-worker suggested that she might not want to come along because the meeting was to be held at a local strip club. Although she felt “humiliated” during the event, she said that afterwords, “I felt...
...better idea of how big the monkey problem is I spoke with Iqbal Malik, one of India's leading primatologists. Malik has studied monkeys for more than two decades and estimates there are now 5,000 monkeys in Delhi. Seven years ago she came up with a plan to create a reserve for the city's monkeys and begin a program of sterilization for selected male monkeys. But she says the city fumbled those plans and instead started trapping monkeys and caging them to create the impression they were doing something. (You can read her story at primatesinperil.blogspot.com). Malik says...