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Whitesides, who taught at MIT prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 1982, is one of the pioneers of the emerging field of nanotechnology. He won the National Medal of Science in 1998, and was awarded the distinguished Kyoto Prize last year for his work in the field of advanced technology...
After Cox was fired as the Watergate special prosecutor in 1973, he taught constitutional law at HLS. Cox also served on the faculty at Boston University Law School and wrote several books, including Law and the National Labor Policy, Civil Rights, the Constitution and the Courts, Freedom of Expression, and The Court and the Constitution...
...that parents once got from fretting over why Johnny can't read are now just as likely to sprout from anxiety about why he can't behave. "When a lot of parents see how their kids interact with playmates and other adults, they're horrified," says Denise Honaker, who taught Kevin and 14 others in the Polite Is Right class she held after school at Cornerstone Elementary in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif...
...Gregory, founder of the PoliteChild. "Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we're fed up with [the results]." Her firm, based in Woodinville, Wash., began in 2001 as an after-school program and is now a national enterprise with 2,000 alumni. Gregory's pupils are taught to mind their p's and q's and remember their three c's: caring, compassion and consideration...
...kept them off for at least a year. The registry was founded in 1993 by James Hill, an obesity researcher at the University of Colorado, and Rena Wing, a behavioral psychologist at Brown University, and although it's a self-selected group of self-described "successful losers," it has taught researchers quite a bit about how to achieve long-term weight loss. Today there are 5,000 Americans listed in the registry, and their stories are an inspiration to anyone who has ever struggled with a weight problem. "On average they have lost 70 lbs. and kept...