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U.S. Women Make Good Rhodes Show
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LOS ANGELES Women made up half the 32 Americans named as Rhodes
Scholars on Sunday - their best showing since becoming eligible in
1976.
Among the women named was Rowan Lockwood of Rockford, Ill., a
geology and biology major at Yale University, where she is a varsity
diver. She previously won one of President Bush's "Point of Light"
awards for founding a program to tutor children in math and science.
Winner Loredana Soceneantu of Highland, Utah, a Romanian-born
biochemistry ...
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