Joel Benenson has been called the “star pollster in the Democratic Party” ( New Yorker, Nov. 17, 2008) after helping Barack Obama gain the presidency....
»Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s predictions, based on a computer model he has developed, refined, and expanded over the past three decades, are remarkably—some might say disconcertingly—accurate. For instance, in February 2008 he went on record that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would be forced from power that summer (which he was) and that the Taliban and Al Qaeda would grow so powerful in Pakistan that the government would attempt to cut a deal with them (which indeed it did)....
»Lee Nadler (1969), the first Queens graduate admitted to Harvard Medical School, now serves as that university’s first dean of clinical and translational research. Nadler’s discoveries helped others to develop the drug Rituxan, which has doubled the cure rate for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from 30 percent to 60 percent of cases....
»Between 1995 and 2003, Dennis Liotta and his colleagues beat out the big drug companies and produced two HIV/AIDS drugs used today by virtually every HIV/AIDS-infected person in the United States. Now he is trying to develop inexpensive drugs to treat the diseases of sub-Saharan Africa....
»Cristina Jiménez, who arrived in the US from Ecuador in 1998 at the age of 13, is getting the word out to young immigrants: You can go to college....
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