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...keep the Islamic state in power. To be sure, Iran hardly feels like a revolutionary place. Some 70% of its population is under 30 and has grown up in a period of relative peace. Some have indeed grown tired of the constraints of living in the Islamic republic. "The younger generation sees the reality, and the discrepancy between that and what we were promised," says Masoud, a shoe merchant in Tehran's Grand Bazaar. In contrast to other countries in the Middle East, there are relatively few soldiers and police visible on the streets of Tehran or huge portraits...
...life centered around basketball. Though Duncan grew up in Hyde Park, he spent much of his childhood on the South Side where he had the chance to play competitive street ball. “Education came later, basketball came first,” says Duncan’s younger brother Owen. “His real great dream was to become a professional basketball player. It was somewhere between devotion and obsession...
...Duncan embarked on a campaign to bring his game to a new level. He became captain of the Junior Varsity team and devoted the following summer to training. “I rarely saw him so grim and determined,” Owen remembers, “as a younger brother I was watching him like ‘wow.’ I mean, he just played basketball all the time...
...This will affect us enormously. The connection between Harvard and Lexington High School has been incredibly significant,” Glew said. “Having these younger, highly educated, sensitive people, trained through Harvard Divinity—the facilitation of learning was so significant. To see that go is a shame. It’s a loss to students...
...Rice, a fellow NAE member, Stone “volunteers for everything he sees.” Hutchinson said that in additional to being a talented researcher, Stone is also a “marvelous” teacher to both the students at the School of Engineering and younger pupils. Stone was in Rhode Island teaching students about fluid mechanics the day he was elected to the NAE, according to Hutchinson. Stone received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from University of California-Davis, his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, and completed his Post Doctoral Work at Cambridge University...