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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Students for Bush receive no financial resources from the College Republicans," said Anne L. Berry '01. "They mostly make use of informational and networking resources...
...think that if we use Title IX to eliminate gender-specific efforts in education, I think we are throwing the baby out with the bath water," Harwood says. "I think it's very helpful to have both single-gender and co-educational experiences in one's collegiate life. It's not that one should negate the other, but that one learns different things from each...
...reputation for being heavily male, heavily Republican, and strict with its use of Robert's Rules of Order," Redmond said...
...understand better how it works, maybe we could use that to direct the regeneration and repopulation of neurons in damaged areas of the brain," Gould told the Associated Press, indicating the findings could help future scientists slow or reverse the effects of aging and brain diseases. While it is not known what function the new cells serve, one theory builds on research done by Rockefeller University's Fernando Nottebohm, who found evidence that the brain generates new cells to record events into memory, as opposed to the long-held belief that memories are formed solely through connections of existing neurons...
...successful effort to defeat a proposed state lottery. The lottery was championed by Governor Donald Siegelman, whose 1998 election platform focused almost entirely on his pledge to bring state-sponsored gambling (and the resultant cash) to Alabama. Siegelman, who was understandably nonplussed by Tuesday?s defeat, had planned to use the profits from the lottery to bulk up the state's school budget. The voters? rejection of the referendum paints Alabama?s much-maligned education system into a tight corner: They?ve got dwindling funds and almost no hope of an infusion - Siegelman?s other key campaign promise...