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...diverted his lunch money into parts for homemade rockets. But he says he was a mere A-minus student, an "academic black sheep" - at least compared with older brother Gilbert, a straight-A valedictorian who studied physics at Princeton and is now a biochemistry professor at Stanford. After quitting school for a while in ninth grade - "I was tired of competing with Gilbert" - he didn't make the Ivy League, so he settled for the University of Rochester. His father once told him he'd never succeed in physics. "What he meant was, compared to Gilbert," recalls younger brother Morgan...
...think he agreed to talk to you? Was part of him proud, and wanted to boast? Absolutely. You can see in the earlier part of the book that he's a good kid, and he's a smart kid. He skips two grades, he's a straight-A student. That all gets subverted once he goes into the projects in Chicago. I think that 12-year-old kid is still in there wanting to come out, and I think it did with his counterfeit bills...
...September 2008, Duncan launched a program in 20 Chicago schools to pay students for good grades. Straight-A students could earn up to $4,000 per year through the program, funded by private donations. (Read more about Obama and education...
Online gossip blogs such as Hollyscoop have speculated over the past several weeks that Watson may be applying to Harvard, and her presence on campus may bolster these claims.Watson has excelled in her studies, despite spending much of her life on film sets. She achieved straight-A grades on both Advanced Level Examinations and General Certificate of Secondary Education tests, which are commonly-taken British standardized tests...
...forthcoming Harry Potter movie, and who was reportedly killed defending his brother in a brawl over a stolen mobile phone. On July 1 hundreds of demonstrators marched through Islington, Hackney's neighboring borough, to protest the knifing outside a local pub of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella, a straight-A student whose sister starred in a popular TV soap opera. Nine days later, four Londoners were knifed to death in separate incidents during the same 24-hour period, among them Melvin Bryan, who would have celebrated his 19th birthday two days later...