Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some 150 other young children in the U.S., 21-month-old Alyssa Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically slim. But last week a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center gave the little girl from Schertz, Texas, her chance to live. And what seemed truly miraculous about the operation was the source of Alyssa's new liver: her mother...
...different geopolitical arena, both internally and externally. How many times in the last 40 years has the United States had to defend itself from an annihilation as Israel has done three times? Does America have a mandatory three-year military draft and military reserves for all men from the age of 21 to 45? Does the United States have specially-made public trash cans designed to withstand a bomb explosion? When was the last time you saw a sign on a bus warning you about suspicious packages? Would America want Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as neighbors instead of Canada...
Tackling the transformation of Willy Loman from a struggling, middle-aged no-name into a defeated, desperate old man, Larry O'Keefe is nothing short of fantastic. O'Keefe makes this already difficult role even riskier by assuming the burden of a believable New York accent, yet he succeeds brilliantly in portraying both the change of age and the evolution of psyche that constitute Willy Loman...
...think it's extraordinary," White says. "Harvard and MIT undergraduates are ideal. They are at just the right age to work with high school students. The kind of student at Harvard and MIT has a good understanding of the learning process. There is no question in our minds that the quality of the students there is excellent...
...Board of Health imposed a one-month quarantine on sporting events involving Northeastern squads after two Northeastern students contracted measles on November 8. The order only exempted adults over the age of 33, whose bodies had apparently built up immunity to the virus. Suspiciously youthful fans were carded at the gate...