Tuesday. Leander girl runs from stranger Updated: 8/22/2006 9:30:50 PM By: News 8 Austin Staff Williamson County authorities are looking for what they call a “person of interest” in connection with an incident near Pleasant Hill Elementary School in Leander. A third-grade student there told authorities she was approached by a man in a green van in the Vista Oaks subdivision Monday. The girl immediately ran away to a nearby home. On Tuesday, the Leander Independent School District sent a notice to parents, advising them of what happened. The girl's mother, Becki Malan, said her daughter did the right thing.…

Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. Mr. Nassirian said people at the Education Department had described the omission as ?a clerical mistake.? But it is ?odd,? he said, because applying the subject codes ?is a fairly mechanical task. It is not supposed to be the subject of any kind of deliberation.? ?I am not at all certain that the omission of this particular major is unintentional,? he added. ?But I have to take them at their word.? Scientists who knew about the omission…