Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand side, things aren't looking much better. In an article in the March 3 edition of The New Republic, Stephen Glass wrote an article lambasting the D.A.R.E. program. D.A.R.E., the only drug education program that is specifically approved for funding by the federal Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, has become the mainstay of our country's anti-drug training. The program receives $750 million in funding, $600 of which come from the government. The program now services 70 percent of the nation's school districts...
...killing as many people as possible in order get his point across to the government. The documents, a compilation of interviews between McVeigh and his defense team, also reveal how McVeigh and Terry Nichols built the bomb and how they funded the operation with robberies. McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, called the reports fakes and asked the newspaper not to publish them. "I don't presume to know everything everybody has said, but none of that sounds familiar to me," Jones told the paper. Ralph Langer, executive vice president and editor of The News, said the documents were real...
However, the Harvard name is extremely alluring; and as a result, the Harvard Faculty has several professors who one seems to see and read everywhere: in bookstores, major magazines, newspapers or the list of Nobel laureates. The superstar professors, so to speak, include: Seamus Heaney, Alan Dershowitz, Helen Vendler, Stephen J. Gould and Henry Louis Gates...
Scientists are not what you'd call high rollers. But in 1991 STEPHEN HAWKING, the brilliant, paralyzed British physicist, bet American colleagues KIP THORNE and JOHN PRESKILL that there is no such thing as a naked singularity in physics. A singularity is an object of such density that the laws of physics do not apply to it. A naked singularity is such an object outside a black hole, but Hawking believes it can exist only inside a black hole. He lost his bet when someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create...
...various voices. He did, however, have a secret life of disconcerting size and visionary intensity. Its traces were found after his death by his landlord, a photographer named Nathan Lerner, who preserved them. Some of them--63 watercolors--are on view through April 27 in a show curated by Stephen Prokopoff at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan...