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Amutah says he is ambivalent towards his status as a Harvard student. "I think that I’m very appreciative of what the experience has been," he says, "but I can’t say that I’m happy with the University." Amutah says he is not even sure if he would choose to go to Harvard if he could make the decision again as a high school senior from inner-city Trenton, New Jersey. "Being here seems like so many contradictions," he says "it takes a toll...
...frontier, and we’re not talking about the Berlin Wall. It’s a new decade and a new millennium, and yet another wall is crumbling—this time, not between countries, but in the domain of scientific research.New Internet-based journals are challenging the status quo by publishing works that have not yet passed the usual, rigorous peer-review system, giving any cyber-citizen the power to appraise many novel scientific inquiries. And it’s all too easy to underestimate the potential for science this experiment brings.The hermetic process of traditional peer-review...
...really key in that beginning stage of organization.”And for the entire team, to have a player of Markgraf’s quality on the sidelines is priceless for a young group eager to learn.“The connection with a player of that status, considering I’ve grown up watching her, is incredible,” Nichols said. “The team has a personal bond with her that helps her lead us in a different and beneficial way.”And even with her new maternal duties, Markgraf still...
Tesseron is acutely aware that historic status alone isn't enough. "I'm in a privileged situation, but it's not a given," he says. "I must continue aspiring to be the best." That means more investment as well as a lot of savvy marketing. This year, for the first time, Tesseron threw open his chteau doors to visitors, by appointment only, and hired three people to receive them. One of the three speaks Chinese. "Yes, there are new clients, but the real business still comes from our old ones," he says. "I'm sure in the next...
...problems of poverty and racism, the uninsured and the unemployed, are not simply technical problems in search of the perfect 10-point plan. They are also rooted in societal indifference and individual callousness - the desire among those at the top of the social ladder to maintain their wealth and status whatever the cost, as well as the despair and self-destructiveness among those at the bottom...