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...which families of college students who were suspected of committing suicide sued universities officials for failing to provide adequate mental health care. “It is the only bill of its type in the country,” said the bill’s sponsor, Delegate Albert C. Eisenberg, a Democrat, in a phone interview with The Crimson. But at Harvard, a top mental health official said that the legislation, if signed into law, could carry dangerous consequences for Virginia universities in forcing them to care for mentally ill students. “Who would be responsible...
After roughly 200 years of decline, Calvinism, the faith of the Puritans, has made a modest comeback among younger Evangelical Christians. One of the movement's potent mentors is Albert Mohler, the influential, telegenic head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, who made waves last June when he critiqued the religious claims of presidential contender Barack Obama in an essay called Secularism With A Smile...
When Secord left Government service in 1983, he became president of Stanford Technology Trading Group International, based in Vienna, Va. He formed that company together with Albert Hakim, an Iranian-born arms dealer who runs a California electronics firm started up in the 1970s to sell sensitive U.S. technology overseas. Stanford Technology has had intriguing connections in Switzerland. There was a Stanford Technology Corp. in Geneva and a Stanford Technology Services in Freiburg. The Geneva firm had the same address as the Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires (C.S.F.), which the Times of London identified as the repository for $18 million...
...varying degrees, all the robots on display imitate the look and behavior of living creatures, a form of engineering known as biomimicry. A robot designed by David Hanson, president and director of Dallas-based Hanson Robotics, to look like Albert Einstein can hold a plausible conversation (it understands 130,000 words) accompanied by convincing hand gestures. Its subtle facial expressions are facilitated by Frubber, a patented polymer that simulates facial skin...
...starring with men her own age, or at least her own generation. George Peppard, in "Tiffany's", and James Garner, in "The Children's Hour", were a year older. Peter O'Toole, in "How to Steal a Million", was three years younger, and "Two for the Road"'s Albert Finney seven years her junior - and the first Audrey co-star who seemed ready to treat her as a sex object. Yet to find someone whose roguish masculinity complemented her ethereal femininity, she would have to come out of retirement in 1976 for Sean Connery and Robin and Marian...