Word: weeded
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Matthew A. Weed has managed to meet and surpass the successes of many Harvard students. And yet, for this gifted Division of Medical Sciences student, the world is blanketed with darkness...
...first blind and diabetic student to have studied at each Big Three university (Harvard, Yale and Princeton), Weed has taken the Ivy League and the world by storm. Despite his dual disability, he has demonstrated his wisdom in political science and life science...
AFTER A 30% YEAR IN STOCKS, WHAT NOW? I POSED THIS question during the annual portfolio-management conference at our dining-room table. This is the time to weed out unproductive assets, of which we had several. As my wife pointed out, if stocks had a 30% year, what happened to ours? Don't blame me, I said; blame the Turkey Fund...
...that has ethicists worried. As scientists fill in knowledge about the genes of personality, will employers and insurers use genetic work-ups to deny jobs to those inclined to love thrills? Will parents demand prenatal testing to weed out children who have the "wrong" personality genes? "They are big issues," admits Dr. Richard Ebstein, a molecular biologist who led the research team at Jerusalem's S. Herzog Memorial Hospital, "and they will come...
...committee, chaired by weed Roosevelt '64 (great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, who donated the antler chandeliers which illuminate the Great Hall), was formed late last month...