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...Fifty-three enthusiastic high school teams, decked out in beads, buttons, and crazy hats, cheered as their creations competed in a game called “Breakaway.” Robots kicked soccer balls into goals, climbed onto towers, and lifted themselves up in teams to advance to the world championship next month...
...that brought FIRST to Boston five years ago, said, “Dean Kamen [founder and inventor of the Segway] always calls it the ‘Superbowl of Smarts.’ This is kind of like high school football for the math and science people of the world.” As pop music blasted and giant screens glowed, the crowd chanted and practiced the wave...
...July 2009, experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon—the cancer branch of the World Health Organization—published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology their research stating that tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation are causes of cancer. Tanning beds are now considered to be as deadly as arsenic and mustard...
...select few are able to defer the limitations of an undocumented future when they are accepted at schools like Harvard. In its efforts to recruit the best students from the nation and the world, Harvard is one of very few universities with the financial resources to offer merit-based, need-blind admissions standards for all students, including those ineligible for federal financial...
Higher education at places like Harvard offers a temporary respite from the undocumented life in the outside world. “This was in so many ways the closest I’ve ever been to freedom, to be at Harvard,” says Mariana, an undocumented student who graduated last year and asked that her real name not be disclosed. Mariana came here when she was eight years old from Mexico; her mother was sick, and they could not find the care she needed in their home country...