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...said his daughter, Gale Mosteller. “Now major universities typically have both.”In addition to establishing statistics as its own respectable field at universities, he worked to introduce statistics in high schools. He helped write teachers’ manuals in the field and taught a televised course on statistics in NBC’s “Continental Classrooms” in 1961.He later chaired the Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health (HSPH), and both developed and chaired the school’s Department of Health Policy and Management. He also offered...

Author: By Marie C. Kodama, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Statistics Dep’t Founder Dead at 89 | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...taught you how to write fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life at the Top...of the Bestseller List | 8/9/2006 | See Source »

...really self-taught. I always felt that if it amused me, it would amuse a lot of other people too. So I just tried to find out what I liked - what do I like in television? What do I like in movies? What do I like in books? I think that I'm a very typical person. I am Average Janet. I come from this working-class background - went to a state school, first in my family to graduate from college, didn't even stay in a dorm. We didn't have any money, but we're hardworking people. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life at the Top...of the Bestseller List | 8/9/2006 | See Source »

...education, promoting sustainable development and healing people with aids, tuberculosis and malaria. She made no mention of God, let alone Jesus Christ. Her answers would have been more fitting coming from the head of the Gates Foundation than a national religious leader. For 2,000 years the church has taught that our works must flow from our faith. Sadly, Bishop Jefferts Schori spoke only of works and of a church whose focus doesn't include God. (The Rev.) Canon Francis C. Zanger Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. After reading the interview with Jefferts Schori, I have no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fields of Dreams | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...could make them more electable than their predecessors. And they're determined not to be defined solely by their race. The most prominent of those politicians is Illinois' Barack Obama, who is currently the only black Senator. There are no black Governors. Obama, a Harvard Law School grad who taught at the University of Chicago, has emphasized that his appeal is not limited to the black community. Ford, looking to join Obama in the Senate, has sought to distinguish himself from traditional black pols with his more conservative voting record. Dismissing a question about how his race might affect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the New Wave of Barack Obamas | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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