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Many of them had quit their job or taken a leave to go to New Mexico. None were paid for their time. Jean Hixson was a former W.A.S.P. who taught third-graders in Akron, Ohio, under the sobriquet "the supersonic schoolmarm." Jan and Marion Dietrich were identical twins from California, dead ringers for Natalie Wood. Janey Hart was the wife of a U.S. Senator. Four of them had logged more flying hours than any of the seven men chosen two years earlier as Mercury astronauts. Jerrie Cobb, the first to be tested, was a shy, restless woman who had worked...
...Clinton in an election; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. During Clinton's troubled first term as Governor, White switched parties, ran against Clinton in 1980 and won. White was best known for signing a law, later struck down by a federal court, requiring science teachers who taught the theory of evolution to include "creation science...
...taught and studied Russian history, the history of the Renaissance and the Reformation at Simmons College, Ithaca College, Smith College and eventually settled at UMass Boston...
While her husband taught psychology at the University of Minnesota (UMN), Hively became what she calls “a very active volunteer” with the League of Women Voters and local environmental groups, coordinating efforts to implement pollution control legislation and laying the groundwork for the service-oriented career that would follow...
...taken lightly or often. Today, like copper ore or cotton bales or computer-memory chips, most employees are regarded as commodities to be stockpiled or shed as business warrants. Technology not only allows fewer people to do the jobs of many; it also allows their skills to be taught fairly quickly anywhere in the world. So experience and the investments that companies have made in training count less. Most companies, Reich says, "have started to think of wages as a variable rather than a fixed cost...