Childhood polio had left her deformed with double curvature of the spine, but she didn't let her handicap keep her from becoming the acting and public speaking star of Washington State College, joining the faculty immediately after graduation.

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"I feel there's a lot of education that still needs to take place" in the medical community, says Michele Shaw, a professor at Washington State University College of Nursing who studies exercise in children, with a focus on those with asthma.

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"There's more political pressure on sexual norms and family norms, so you see a profusion of these sorts of scandals, " says Paul Apostolidis, a political science professor at Whitman College in Washington state and the co-editor of the 2002 book Public Affairs: The Politics of Sex Scandals.

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In the fall of 1926, Ed once again followed in his brothers' footsteps and enrolled at Washington State College in Pullman, in the far southeastern corner of the state.

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Joining Michigan State are Colorado State University, George Mason University, Middlebury College, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Virginia, University of Washington and Ohio State University, the only school to still be competing in the NCAA Tournament and the Environmental March Madness Tournament.

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Often dismissed as a "cow college, " Washington State was now home to the president of the largest student organization in the United States.

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He and his team are taking the next few weeks to gather interest from students and backers alike, before fully opening the platform in September to students and recent alumni at its first five schools, Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Michigan and University of Washington.

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Last night in Washington I moderated a panel discussion on the state of leadership in America, sponsored by Claremont McKenna College.

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