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...Though a superior education was the determining factor in Nielsen's decision, Harvard also boasts a hockey program steeped in tradition...
...been showing the world how to take technological innovation and turn it into gold. Examples abound: the transistor radio, the color television, the portable cassette player, the videocassette recorder. The basic technology in these products was invented elsewhere--the transistor and the vcr were born in the U.S.--but superior engineering expertise and marketing flair gave Japan clear dominance of the world of high tech...
...left is an enriched group of healthy, strong individuals." This weeding-out process is most evident among those for whom the selection pressures are greatest. For instance, while death rates are higher for African Americans than for whites up to age 75, blacks who make it to 75 have superior health and longevity. Similarly, although men have a shorter average life-span than women, males who do survive into extreme old age tend to be in better shape than women. Men make up 20% of 100-year-olds and 40% of 105-year-olds...
Johnson, 65, may leave the force as early as May of this year, but will stay on until a successor is found, according to Marshall, who is the police chief's immediate superior...
...Eastern-seaboard college. A professor of American studies is addressing the packed class for his course "From Wham! to Pearl Jam: Aesthetic Shifts in Late 20th Century Popular Culture." The 1990s were a Golden Age in the history of American tastes, he argues, a decade of pared-down chic superior to the one that preceded it. To bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert James...