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...senior women. This resulted in the exclusion of some of the most distinguished males, specifically two Nobel laureates who graduated in 1968 and 1969. We also presented data for junior scientists. These data showed very encouraging performance trends for junior women faculty. Contrary to Hopkins' claims, we did not tailor our methodology to a particular result; we simply followed standards commonly used in universities throughout the U.S. and Canada...
...bought that afternoon. There was also a bouquet of red roses for his wife in the car. Expecting him, Phyllis had displayed his new blue sheriff's uniform in the den. Derwin had designed it himself, with gold stars and braid, and he had been anxious for the tailor to finish it. His good friend and confidant Robert Crowder had brought it to the house. Friends and family had been watching TV, talking about the trip to Helen, Ga., where Phyllis and Derwin planned to escape before Christmas. Everybody was relieved; the election was behind them, the long battle finally...
Fortunately, New York has come up with a last-ditch solution--which, surprisingly, may be the wave of the future. Despite local community opposition, the New York power authority is racing to install 10 individual generators around the city, each capable of producing 44 megawatts. The system is tailor-made for New York, which is plagued by bottlenecks on its aging transmission lines that often make it hard to import power...
Drugs will play an even greater role in the near future, says Dr. Valentin Fuster, director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. For one thing, the wealth of data coming out of the human-genome project will allow physicians to tailor pharmaceutical treatments to an individual's specific genetic profile in ways that have never before been possible. For another, men and women at risk of developing heart disease are being identified at earlier and earlier stages of their condition, a situation in which drug therapy presents fewer risks than surgery...
...Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...