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Katherine LaNasa Looks LaNice
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Katherine LaNasa Looks LaNice

Katherine LaNasa was trained as a ballet dancer, which is likely how the New Orleans native got the moves to land Dennis Hopper as a husband. They’re not married anymore, but this easy rider moved onto French Stewart and then Grant Show. But her relationship with show-business goes back to 1990 when she was cast as a waitress in the film Catchfire. However, she didn't show off her business until 1996's Always Say Goodbye, wherein she lies naked in bed with her butt in the air. Katherine then kept her guard up through a number of projects before letting us glimpse her butt and boobs in the CBS series The Guardian. After this surprising network nudity, Kat could be seen sunbathing with lots of exposed skin in Two and a Half Men and exiting a pool in a revealing blue bikini in Valentine's Da...
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7 lessons from ‘Hidden Figures’ NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career
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7 lessons from ‘Hidden Figures’ NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s life and career

Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. Johnson became a household name thanks to the celebrated book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race,” which later became a movie. Her legacy provides lessons for supporting women and other underrepresented groups in mathematics and science. As a historian of mathematics, I have studied women in that field and use the book “Hidden Figures” in my classroom. I can point to some contemporary ideas we can all benefit from when examining Johnson’s life. 1. Mentors make a difference Early in her life, Johnson’s parents fostered her intellectual prowess. Because there ...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

Katherine Johnson, who has died at the age of 101, was an amazing woman. But up until a few years ago, hardly anyone had heard of her or her achievements. She was a mathematician and she worked for NASA. But on paper neither of those facts would make her stand out from the crowd. Add a few more facts – she was a woman, she was black and working in the US in the 1950s to early 1960s – and the scale of her success becomes more apparent. Johnson’s story and significant contributions to the US space programme, along with those of Dorothy Vaughan (a computer scientist) and Mary Jackson (an engineer), were brought to widespread public attention by the 2016 book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and film of the same name. I have rarely watched a film that has moved me as much as Hidden ...
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