Student Magarita Avitia said before attending UNM she worked as a housekeeper with her mother. "I woke up every morning at five with my mom," she said. "She pretty much helped me clean everything because it was hard work. I couldn't even hang in there."
Sen. Michael Sanchez admits someone helped him conceive the Lottery Success Scholarship. "I would love to say that I was the sole reason that that bill was introduced and that I came up with the idea by myself," Sanchez said. "But I have to tell you that it was me and my wife who sat around talking one night."
Carbone, a romantic carbon atom, was incredibly excited about joining a carbon-based protein strand.
UNM student Lanlan Wang said she began practicing Falun Dafa, a controversial type of Chinese meditation, in March 1998. A year later, she was kicked out of Tsinghua University in China.
Anna Tabor was diagnosed with schizophrenia in the late '90s after she became obsessed with the singer Sting. "I got all this information on him and inundated myself with it 24-7," Tabor said. "I study dead classicists and was convinced that Sting was one in the making. I was sure that his soul was in grave danger."
UNM senior Greg Luther said after studying abroad in Granada, Spain, he returned to campus with much more drive and determination.
Debra Gersh Hernandez, ----national coordinator of Sunshine Week, said she and other open government activists are realistic. "No one here argues that government should be totally open," Hernandez said. "That would be against national security and privacy."
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