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...Friday night, Manning and 60 alumnae of the Pitches joined current members on Sanders Theatre's stage for the organization's 25th anniversary...
...national pastime have two things in common: devoted fans and Cooperstown, N.Y. Located a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band in 1880, Sousa always longed...
This past week researchers from around the world gathered for the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans to discuss better ways of dealing with strokes. The news out of the meeting was not good. According to a new study, the number of strokes--having declined in the 1960s and '70s--is unexpectedly rising again. In 1999 alone there were 750,000 full-fledged strokes in the U.S. and half a million transient ischemic attacks (TIAS), or ministrokes. Although both numbers have doctors worried, the conference paid particular attention to the ministrokes because of both...
...inclusive, to open doors without outwardly using race as a guideline," says Cohen. "But a lot of people believe racism still exists - and that the legacy of discrimination has not been erased." Many Floridians also wonder whether the 20 percent rule will be entirely fair. "The person in the 25th percentile at a better high school is a better candidate than the kid at the 15th percentile of a not-so-good school," says Cohen. And so the battle rages on: The intricacies of the affirmative action issue - which ignites deep-seated passions about race, gender and socioeconomics - ensure that...
...25th floor, we come face to face with a huge poster of the three beautiful ones as we step off the elevator - Cindy (Crawford), Rebecca (Romijn-Stamos), Daisy (Fuentes) - playfully popping the corks off a bottle of champagne. I wonder if Rebecca is that leggy in person. I look at Soman, he looks at me, we both know we've managed to enter an alternate universe. Welcome to their world. And we know there's no going back. We ask the secretary to buzz our contact...