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There are two basic twin types now, identical and fraternal, but a third type is the focus of a new discovery. The story of these one-of-a-kind twins begins after natural conception and an uncomplicated term pregnancy, when the newborns were brought to the attention of science because one is anatomically male and one has sexually ambiguous genitalia...
...latent conflict between the postmodern hydra’s twin heads of diversity and choice is therefore resolved quite neatly. Both diversity and choice serve a larger, if largely subconscious goal in the contemporary Academy: a full realization of existential equality...
Looks as if JENNA BUSH may shed her label as the naughty twin. The President's blond daughter, perhaps best known for taking creative license with her driver's license, is writing Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope, a nonfiction book due this fall about a 17-year-old single mother who is HIV-positive. Bush, 25, who has been interning in Latin America for UNICEF (which will get a portion of the proceeds), says she hopes to "motivate young Americans to increase their awareness of other young people around the world." If only she had connections, the book...
Only after reading Jerry Kaplan's book on GO Corp.--a former tech high flyer that flamed out--did Alvelda realize the marketability of a concept contained in a chapter of his 1995 Ph.D. thesis. That concept begat MicroDisplay, his first start-up, that same year and united his twin passions: education and technology. "There is an aspect of education and communication that helps people to grow personally that I never anticipated as part of the corporate world," he says...
...already taken steps on the long and winding road toward picking her FAS dean-to-be. She is reconvening a faculty committee formed last year to advise Interim President Derek C. Bok in the search for an interim dean. To our dismay, Faust does not plan to create a twin student advisory committee to advise her. Given the direct effect of the position on College life, however, Faust should actively and formally involve students in the selection of a new FAS dean. Faust is taking some steps to solicit student input. She has hatched an e-mail account to pool...