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THE NEW MEXICAN Thursday, June 27, 2013
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PHILADELPHIA — Christopher Gray couldn’t even afford college application fees, let alone tuition. His single mother was out of work, and there were two siblings to think about, then ages 2 and 3. But with a passion for entrepreneurship, the Birmingham, Ala., student dreamed of attending a college in the Northeast so he could be close to New York City and other major business centers. “So the onus was really on me. I had to deal with it myself,” recalled Gray, now 21 and a rising junior at Drexel University. For three months, he holed up in the local library — he didn’t have a computer at home — and searched out and applied for more than 70 college scholarships. Gray, an A-B student in high school who had served in leadership roles and started his own nonprofit company, had astounding success. He received 34 scholarships worth $1.3 million — enough to get his bachelor’s, his master’s and his doctorate, plus cover his living expenses with some left over to invest. Now, Gray — since dubbed “the Million Dollar Scholar” — has found a way to help other teens find scholarship money. He and two associates have developed a mobile app called Scholly — shorthand for “scholarships” — for both the iPhone and Android. The app has been available for only about a month, but several thousand downloads have sold. All proceeds from the 99-cent app at this point are going back into the company, said Nick Pirollo, 23, one of Gray’s partners. He is a computer and electrical engineering major from New Jersey who graduated this month. He updates the app and manages the website Myscholly.com. As a student at a magnet high school in Birmingham, Gray distinguished himself early on. He graduated with a 3.9 GPA while leading the local Bible club and running his nonprofit, Genesis, which organized volunteer opportunities for students. His guidance counselor suggested he apply for six scholarships. He got all of them, but he knew he needed more. He scanned hundreds of websites, poring through criteria. Many scholarships looked for top-notch academics combined with leadership and community service. Gray had all three. His biggest coup was the Gates Millennium Scholarship, which covers tuition and room and board from a bachelor’s to a doctorate. A $20,000 scholarship from CocaCola followed, which fortuitously put him in touch with Bryson Alef, a rising senior at Amherst College, his other partner on the Scholly app. He also received a $20,000 Horatio Alger Scholarship and the $10,000 Axa Achievement Scholarship. Gray, an entrepreneurship major with two more years at Drexel, wants to make it easier for his siblings than it was for him. “I’m trying to save up to put them in a better environment,” he said, aiming to get them into a private school by fifth grade. As for his career plans, he has the goal of a true entrepreneur: “Ideally not to have to get a job when I graduate.”
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POPE: LEGION’S REFORM TO CONTINUE As he leaves St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican after his weekly general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis is presented with a paper flower by a sick girl. In his speech, Francis signaled that the reform process of the troubled Legion of Christ religious order will stretch beyond next year’s target date amid continued reservations about whether it has truly changed its ways following revelations its founder was a pedophile. ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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MOSCOW — Moscow’s main airport swarmed with journalists from around the globe Wednesday, but the man they were looking for, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, was nowhere to be seen. The mystery of his whereabouts only deepened a day after President Vladimir Putin said that Snowden was in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport. If Putin’s statement is true, it means that Snowden has effectively lived a life of airport limbo since his weekend flight from Hong Kong, especially with his American passport now revoked by U.S. authorities. Adding to the uncertainty, Ecuador’s foreign minister said it could take up to two months to decide whether to grant asylum to Snowden.
Texas woman’s lethal injection set for Wednesday HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty state, is set to mark a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday with the execution of convicted killer Kimberly McCarthy. If McCarthy is put to death in Huntsville as planned, she would become the 500th person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982. She would also be the first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010. McCarthy’s attorney, Maurie Levin, said she has exhausted all efforts to block the execution, after denials by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Texas has carried out nearly 40 percent of the more than 1,300 executions in the U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. The state’s standing stems from its size as well as its tradition of tough justice.
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LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer fight for justice in their upcoming film, The Lone Ranger, but their ancestors did it for real. Genealogy research website Ancestry.com revealed Wednesday the two actors descend from historic American freedom fighters. Hammer plays the Lone Ranger and Depp portrays his Native American sidekick, Tonto. Yet the site’s historians discovered that it’s Hammer who is a descendent of Cherokee leader and peace advocate Chief Kanagatucko, who was known as “Old Hop” or “Stalking Turkey” because of his age and gait. Researchers said Depp’s eighth great-grandmother was Elizabeth Key, the first slave in the American colonies to sue for her freedom and win. It happened in 1656 in Virginia, where some of Depp’s ancestors have lived since the early 1600s.
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NEW YORK — Paula Deen was dropped by Wal-Mart and her name was stripped from four buffet restaurants Wednesday, hours after she went on television and tearfully defended herself amid the mounting fallout over her admission of using a racial slur. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Wednesday that it ended its relationship with Deen and will not place “any new orders beyond what’s already committed.” Caesars Entertainment Corp. said it had been “mutually decided” with Deen to remove her name from its restaurants in Joliet, Ill.; Tunica, Miss.; Cherokee, N.C.; and Elizabeth, Ind. At the same time, Deen’s representatives released letters of support from nine companies that do business with the chef and promised to continue.
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WASHINGTON — In a significant step toward ending controversial biomedical research using chimpanzees, the federal government announced a decision Wednesday to retire to sanctuaries all but about 50 of the animals available for testing. The National Institutes of Health has been phasing out its funding and use of research chimps for at least two years but still houses nearly 400 chimps in facilities across the country. “Americans have benefitted greatly from the chimpanzees’ service to biomedical research, but new scientific methods and technologies have rendered their use in research largely unnecessary,” NIH Director Francis Collins said in a statement. The announcement by NIH comes two weeks after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to place both wild and captive chimps on the endangered species list for the first time. Previously, captive chimps were listed as threatened, a designation that carries fewer protections. The split listing under the Endangered Species Act allowed NIH to fund medical experiments using captive chimps. Animal rights activists who pressured NIH for decades to end its testing of chimps saw the Fish and Wildlife proposal as a direct message to the health agency. The Humane Society of the United States, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the Jane Goodall Institute hailed the two decisions. Chimpanzees are under a growing threat. More than a million have disappeared in the wild since 1900, according to estimates by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Fewer than 300,000 remain as people invade their habitats. Wednesday’s announcement had no bearing on rhesus macaques and other monkeys NIH continues to use for invasive biomedical research. “This set of decisions relates solely to chimpanzees. There are no implications for other animals. That research NIH believes is still vital,” Collins said. Ongoing behavioral research using apes can continue until their scheduled completion in the next year or two, NIH officials said. The 50 chimps that will remain available for new research will be chosen over the next several months.
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‘CHAPTER TWO’: Santa Fe Playhouse presents Neil Simon’s comedy, 7:30 p.m., $20, discounts available, santafeplayhouse.org, Thursdays-Saturdays through June. 142 E. De Vargas St. ARLEN ASHER: Santa Fe’s woodwind master is joined by Michael Anthony on guitar, Michael Olivola on bass and John Trentacosta on drums in KSFR Radio’s concert series, 7 p.m., $20, 428-1527. 710 Camino Lejo. CURRENTS 2013: THE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM: Free screening of Denis Cote’s Bestiaire, 7:30 p.m., complete list of events at participating venues available online at currentsnewmedia.org. 555 Camino de la Familia. JANIS STOUT: The author reads from and signs copies of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, 6 p.m. 202 Galisteo St. PUBLIC RELATION’S BEST — STEVE LEWIS: Just in time to help you gain media coverage for your summer selling season, Steve Lewis, former television journalist and 21-year guru for Santa Fe, will share trade tips and his experiential learning with the Santa Fe
Lotteries community. SANTA FE OPERA BACKSTAGE TOURS: Visit the production areas, costume shop, and prop shop, 9 a.m., $10, discounts available, weekdays, through Aug. 13. 301 Opera Drive.
NIGHTLIFE Thursday, June 27 ¡CHISPA! AT EL MESÓN: Tierra Soniquete, Joaquin Gallegos on guitar and J.Q. Whitcomb on trumpet, 7 p.m.-close, no cover. 213 Washington Ave. CLEOPATRA CAFÉ SOUTHSIDE: The Saltanah Dancers, belly dance, 7-9 p.m., no cover. 3482 Zafarano Drive. COWGIRL BBQ: Roots/blues duo Littlewolf, 8 p.m., no cover. 319 S. Guadalupe St. EVANGELO’S: Dance band Little Leroy and His Pack of Lies, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover. 200 W. San Francisco St. GARY PAUL HERMUS RETURNS TO UPPER CRUST PIZZA: Come enjoy good food and good friends while singer/ songwriter Gary Paul Hermus spins tall tales, sings bluesy ballads and gently humorous yarns to the sound of fingerstyle guitar and blues dobro. 329 Old Santa Fe Trail. LA FIESTA LOUNGE AT LA FONDA: The Bill Hearne Trio, classic country, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover. 100 E. San Francisco
St. LA POSADA DE SANTA FE RESORT & SPA: Pat Malone Jazz Trio with Kanoa Kaluhiwa on saxophone, Asher Barreras on bass, and Malone on guitar, 6 p.m., no cover. 330 E. Palace Ave. SANTA FE BANDSTAND: Americana duo Todd & The Fox, 6 p.m.; indie band John Courage & The Great Plains, 7:15 p.m., on the Plaza, santafebandstand.org, continues through Aug. 23. SECOND STREET BREWERY: Local blues/rock guitarist Alex Maryol, 6-8 p.m., no cover. 1814 Second St. TINY’S: Americana band Broomdust Caravan, 8 p.m.close, no cover. 1005 St. Francis Drive, Suite 117. ZIA DINER: Swing Soleil, Gypsy jazz and swing, 6-8 p.m., no cover. 326 S. Guadalupe St.
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