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...example, “at Stanford they will teach a fraction of what they teach here,” Rosenblum said...
...eminent precollege science event, Intel chairman Craig Barrett asked China's Education Minister how many students there take part in regional science fairs. "When he said 6 million kids, it was a moment of reflection," says Barrett. In the U.S., about 50,000 take part in the fairs. Stanford University president John Hennessy is worried about a lack of role models, among other things. "We have [TV] shows about doctors, lawyers, politicians. Where are our role models of scientific innovation?" asks Hennessy. "We need Eddie the Engineer or Sam the Scientist...
...kick-start innovation. It named Joseph Licklider to find ways to protect the U.S. against a space-based nuclear attack, and he believed a communications network was key to those efforts. The first Net went live in October 1969 with the University of California, Los Angeles, talking to the Stanford Research Institute. In 1990 the National Science Foundation expanded the system connecting university networks. It reached the public...
...National Indoor Championships, held in Madison, Wisconsin. The tournament, which featured 16 of the nation’s top teams, was a thriller for Harvard, which upset No. 6 Georgia and No. 16 Texas Christian University by 4-3 scores to reach the Final Four. Though top-ranked Stanford ended Harvard’s unprecedented run with a 5-0 win, the squad returned home with a positive outlook. “Now that we have two great matches under our belt it’s definitely a boost for the entire season,” senior Eva Wang said...
...with its Biopolis project, is pulling in top biomedical scientists--not just Edison Liu but Americans like geneticist Sydney Brenner and, most recently, husband-and-wife cancer researchers Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins, who are leaving the National Cancer Institute after two decades. They turned down competing offers from Stanford and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center because, Copeland says, "what's going on over there is amazing. There's plenty of funding and a lot less bureaucracy." Moreover, says Liu, "In the U.S. the state government says, Let's do one thing, while the Federal Government is trying...