Word: beacons
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Reich clearly has the experience to handle the job. He is a seasoned administrator who presided over a cabinet department with over 16,000 full-time employees and an annual budget greater than that of Massachusetts’. Yet Reich is not a Beacon Hill insider; he is not tainted by the state legislature’s endless, autocratic budget process...
Neighborhoods within neighborhoods, stitched together by community newspapers and block barbeques, make the South End a city unto itself. Chestnut Hill, a four-block square area abutting Interstate 90, enjoys the atmosphere of Beacon Hill—it shares the same illustrious builders as its more prestigious sister community. The Castle Square Housing Project exemplifies new, clean, modern public housing: impatiens cluster on the grounds outside—but the stairways are glass-enclosed, for easy public viewing...
Most cancer specialists, though, believe that while Erbitux and the science behind its development are radical, both are solid. Erbitux can home in on a protein beacon found on 80% of tumors, making it a promising candidate for treating a range of cancers, from breast to lung to colon. "Nobody has ever questioned the value or the trustworthiness of the science," says Dr. Larry Norton, head of solid tumor oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
...place on Earth. The smell of incense, the touch of candle wax, the overly starched cotton of my surplice as I knelt before the sacred mystery of the Eucharist: in the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "a serious house on serious earth" this was, a refuge and a beacon, a rebuke to the chatter and trivia and destabilizing noise of the world outside and beyond. And the knowledge that these rituals, these words, these miracles, had been going on for centuries and centuries, reaching back to small groups of confused followers in the aftermath of the Resurrection, only intensified...
...Harvard must be a beacon of light for the nation, not a shadow of doubt,” Jackson said in an interview following the press conference...