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...Maher’s top priorities is reinvigorating the public’s faith in the Cambridge Public Schools System. Maher cites recent change at the Tobin Elementary School in West Cambridge—just a few blocks away from Appleton Street, where Maher now lives and the area where he grew up—as an important story for the city’s public school system...
...study mouse eggs in an effort to pinpoint the best time to fertilize human eggs in IVF; to investigate the facial-tumor disease that's killing Tasmanian devils; and to preserve historic documents. "I thought scientists would want to wait and see how well the synchrotron performs," says Mark Tobin, who oversees the infrared beamline's operation. "But they've been very keen to jump in the deep end and try it out for themselves...
When Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard explored in their book Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Random House) a family legend that said messages encoded in quilts helped slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad, they had no idea that their hypothesis would inspire rancor from scholars who declared it false. They also couldn't have predicted how their story, published less than 10 years ago, would capture the popular imagination - being treated as fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in museum exhibits, in children's textbooks...
...Hidden in Plain View is the story of one woman's family," explains Tobin, a journalist and teacher, who said she first heard about the codes when she bought a quilt from a woman named Ozella McDaniel Williams at a Charleston, S.C., market in 1994. Williams told Tobin that for generations women in her family had been taught an oral history that stated that quilt patterns - like log cabins, monkey wrenches and wagon wheels - also served as directions that helped slaves plan their escapes. Since she lacked historical data to back up Williams' claim, Tobin enlisted her friend Raymond Dobard...
...field by almost two seconds. Dan Jones looked strong in the 200 fly, taking the race in 1:51.40 to notch his first of two wins in the butterfly events. It was then Columbia’s turn to put together a string of first-place finishes. Tobin White sparked the streak for the Lions with a win in the 50 free and Justin Reardon followed suit with a 299.10-point performance in the 1-meter dive, easily taking the event. White then rounded out the performance with a second victory in the 100 free. Degnan-Rojeski regained momentum...