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Summers' presidency will not be his first time setting priorities for scientific research. Neal F. Lane, a professor at Rice University who served as the assistant to the president for science and technology under Clinton and later took the post of Director of the National Science Foundation, says Summers was a strong advocate of giving money to scientific research while he was at the Department of the Treasury...
Clever opened the spring at the Rice Invitational over spring break with a 70.32-meter throw, the best of his career by a foot. One week later at the Harvard track, he upped his personal best to 72.84 meters...
...village come by daylight, by road and ferry, past lush coconut groves and over the countless fingers of the Mekong River as it branches across the delta. Of late, those traveling the one-lane clay road to Thanh Phong--now home to about 380 families who fish and grow rice--include foreign journalists trying to corroborate an atrocity and Vietnamese government officials accompanying them...
...conventional struggle in which success is measured by gaining territory. In Vietnam, by contrast, there were no front lines to advance; the war was pervasive. An apparently benign peasant could be a guerrilla, a pretty prostitute a clandestine agent, the kid who delivered the laundry a secret informer. Flooded rice fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast...
...Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location, requiring crowd-control techniques the company picked up from Disneyland. "That was the smartest move," says Kaplan. Why cinnamon buns? "The chewy and glutinous texture of the dough is a little bit like Japanese sticky rice cakes," says Minako Fujiwara, creator of a Cinnabon fan website...