Word: yale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event grew from music and dancing to include sport. At 2 p.m., the hotly contested Harvard-Yale baseball game added another element to the festivities. The Glee Club performed on the steps of Widener Library...
When her top choice Yale accepted her, she and her family moved to Connecticut. And when Harvard offered her a teaching position several years later, Bruzelius recalls, her friends "thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard" that she was returning to an alma mater that she remembered less than fondly...
Bruzelius recalls applying to four colleges: Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Harvard and Yale. At her interview for Yale, the female interviewer tried to impress upon the young Bruzelius how lucky she was to have a shot at being among the first women accepted to the college...
...seems absurd that the fate of nations could hang on the sale of a Pentium III chip. "It's an illusion that we can draw a bright line in the sand," says Jeffrey Garten, a Commerce official during Clinton's first term and now dean of Yale's School of Management. "So it's healthy that we have a national debate over what we transfer and what we hold back." Engagement with China rests on scores of such decisions, and virtually no one, not even in the white heat of the Cox report, is seriously calling for Washington to disengage...
...than 20% of children in parts of the U.S. are given a sedative--a calming drug that is distinct from anesthesia--before surgery, in contrast to 75% of adults. The push to change the way youngsters are prepped got a big boost this spring when Dr. Zeev Kain of Yale reported that in the first week after an operation, children given the liquid form of midazolam (the most commonly used preoperative sedative) experience 25% to 50% fewer nightmares and other disturbances than those given a placebo...