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...Erin Crocker, 24, started racing when she was 7 and last year became the first woman to win a grueling World of Outlaws sprint-car race. She then signed with legendary NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham, who guided Jeff Gordon to three Winston Cup titles. Though Crocker has risen quickly through the stock-car ranks, Evernham won't rush his prized talent. He had scheduled Crocker to drive full time in next season's Busch Series, NASCAR's top minor-league circuit, but after crashes in her first two Busch starts, she will get more experience at a lower level...
...Harvard University ranks as the top employer in Cambridge with 10,282 workers, according to the 2005 Cambridge Community Development Department and Cited Employers report. Trailing Harvard, MIT employs 7,026 workers and the City of Cambridge employs 3,251 workers. Harvard’s employment sector has risen by over 1,000 workers since 2003, from 8,727 to 10,282 employees. City Manager Robert W. Healy viewed Harvard’s expanding presence in Cambridge as a vital piece of the Cambridge economy both from a prestige standpoint and as a major employer. “In addition...
...Lange is a hot hand getting his shot. His Capital Appreciation Fund has risen 9.7% a year under his tenure, compared with an 8.4% average over the same period for the S&P 500. Still, now he must confront the Magellan pox: Stansky had also been one of Fidelity's hottest young managers when he took over the flagship fund in 1996, only to stumble badly. During his tenure Magellan rose 6.9% a year-compared with an 8.1% gain over the same period for the Standard & Poor...
...common form of blindness. The HapMap also has implications for the study of evolution and natural selection. Pardis C. Sabeti, a student at HMS and a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute, looked for recent, common mutations in the genome. These genes are too young to have risen to their current frequency by chance alone, and so are likely candidates to be the products of recent natural selection. Sabeti and her colleagues are currently working on a paper to reassess many previous claims about recent natural selection using the new HapMap data. “Natural selection is always...
...grandparents have learned to close two gaps--geographic and emotional--with one airplane, either by flying the miles that separate them from their grandkids or by bonding with the young ones through a passion for flying. Often the grandparents do both. The average age of civilian pilots has risen to 55, up from about 48 a decade ago, as more grandparents have taken to the pilot's seat, according to Drew Steketee, CEO of Be a Pilot, a nonprofit that promotes aviation. Around 10% of the would-be flyers who signed up in 2003 and '04 for Be a Pilot...