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Jannine and John Cody were packing to move from Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio in 1985 when a military doctor gave them some devastating news. Their 6-week-old daughter Elizabeth was missing part of her 18th chromosome. To explain what that meant, the doctor showed Jannine a textbook with a horrifying picture and caption that she still keeps in her files. It read, "They are probably the most seriously afflicted among carriers of chromosome abnormalities. They maintain the froglike position observed in infants and are reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savior Parents | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...slots. Fourteen airlines were evaluated on services like on-time arrivals, based on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. "In the late '90s, the big airlines said to their customers, 'You have to be a premier traveler or we're not going to care about you much,'" says Wichita State marketing professor Dean Headley, who co-authored this year's report with Brent Bowen of the University of Nebraska. "[No-frills carriers] told passengers, 'We're going to get you from here to there--with your bags--and we're going to make it as pleasant as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Low Fare, High Quality | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

Xavier McDaniel was once a student, as he too went to college (Wichita State). Heck, Xavier McDaniel also was located in the Boston area—he played for the Celtics, if you didn’t know. Xavier McDaniel, for your information, is himself a so-called “athletic center...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: Slamball at the MAC? There Couldn't Be Anything Better | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...make that generalization, Ziegler interrupts herself: “That’s not true. One story that won an award was set in Kansas. But it was really Montana.” Ziegler pauses. “I think I liked the rhythm of ‘Wichita...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Sky Scribe | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...reforms the French government had proposed for a system that's as profoundly in need of change as the Middle East is in need of peace. I have taught in five nations on three continents, at universities ranging from Harvard to Haifa, from the Free University of Berlin to Wichita State, from Budapest to Boise. But nowhere, proud and pleased though I am to be a French citizen as well as an American one, have I encountered a system of higher education as inefficient, chaotic, perversely bureaucratic and dysfunctional as the French. An American professor in the French system feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Whom the School Bell Tolls | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

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