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...years; in fact, he lost the race for Majority Leader to Boehner earlier this year primarily because he was viewed as a member of the old guard. Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, another member of the current G.O.P. leadership, is running for conference chairman and will face Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn and Florida's Adam Putnam...
...Class of 2010—and 55 percent of out-of-state students—qualify for financial aid, fewer than 20 of the 948 students admitted through the early program applied for financial aid, according to statistics from the school. Virginia Dean of Admissions John A. Blackburn told the student Cavalier Daily that though the university had been considering abandoning early admissions for two years, the decision’s timing was spurred specifically by Harvard and Princeton’s decisions. Virginia’s yield rate—the percentage of accepted students who choose to matriculate?...
...1970s and 1980s, Szostak studied how cells prevent the loss of crucial genetic information during cell division. He and Elizabeth H. Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, predicted the presence of the enzyme—now known as telomerase—which allows cells to protect their genome from degradation...
Szostak shares the award for basic research with Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University...
It’s not the first time that Blackburn has captured headlines. She was a member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics, but Bush dismissed...