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...Harvard, Gleason was also the founder of the Core Curriculum's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), a test on basic statistical and math abilities that all undergraduates must pass by the end of their freshman year. He currently serves as the QRR's chairman and as a representative to the Core's Board of Advisers...
Half of what the day care costs is paid by the owner of the center and the industrial park, Isaac Heller. The founder of Remco toys, Heller, 62, says the center, which is open to all Edison residents, has helped make his park an attractive location for the 38 firms that lease space. Observes Heller: "Not everybody is a yuppie earning $100,000. Some people earn less, and their children deserve the same care as rich people's children...
...year-old founder and owner of a natural products company will be among the 420 students at Harvard Divinity School's convocation today to resume his graduate studies in theology and divinity...
...ranks of those who would dismiss the virus threat as a Chicken Little scare are getting smaller with every outbreak. Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development and now chairman of ON Technology, became a believer when some of his associates were infected. "It isn't the fall of Western civilization," says Kapor, "but the problem is real and the threat is serious." Scientific American's Dewdney has had a similar change of heart. "At first I thought these new outbreaks were much ado about nothing," he says. "But I'm now convinced that they are a bigger threat than...
Feelies Co-Founder Bill Million, 35, may have got the group's name "subliminally" from a long-ago child's game: put your hands inside a covered box and guess what's inside. If their music were a guessing game, you could, inside the Feelies, grab on to the vintage strains of the mesmeric Velvet Underground and strong traces of up-to-the-minute bands like R.E.M. What is fresh about the Feelies is the kind of sardonic innocence they bring to tunes like What Goes On and Undertow. Anyone who hears this new album will feel good first...