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...experience at Howard Hughes also made him an attractive candidate. As the institute’s president he has overseen the construction of a $500-million world-class center for interdisciplinary bioscience research...
Cech's experience at Howard Hughes seemed to make him an attractive candidate—as the institute's president he had overseen the construction of a $500-million world-class center for interdisciplinary bioscience research...
...article "Nakasone's World-Class Blunder" [EDUCATION, Oct. 6] contains errors. First, you claim that H.H. Goddard "insisted that on the basis of IQ scores vast numbers of Italian, Jewish and Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group...
...Harvard looks for a leader to build a science-centered campus in Allston that brings together experts from several fields, Cech has one item on his resume that none of his rivals can match: he already has created a world-class center for interdisciplinary bioscience research...
...TIME brand. Starting on Jan. 8, you will see a different TIME.com We've given the site a long-overdue face-lift, and you will find a sharp, dynamic, constantly updated news site within a new but familiar red border. You'll see more space to show off our world-class photography, our superb writers and columnists, and now you can start your day by checking our news blog, The Ag, which smartly aggregates and summarizes the most important stories from daily newspapers and blogs around the world...