Word: begun
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Over the past few years, Ivy League universities and community colleges nationwide have begun to offer a variety of on-line classes ranging from engineering to wine-tasting...
Here's a big, rambling, reportorial discourse on the American Southwest that seems to have begun as an investigation into the ways in which the region's history has been written since ancient times by the scarcity of water. That would have been logical and achievable--a good, sensible subject with a reasonable stopping point. But by his own account, author Alex Shoumatoff, a veteran writer about distant parts for the New Yorker, spent too much time on the project for a neat, orderly account, traveled too far, read too many books, heard too many semitruths and beguiling lies from...
...MARINA, Calif.: The drafting of Paula Jones by the armies of conservatism, begun by "friend" and spokeswoman Susan Carpenter-McMillan, is now complete. There is a new lead attorney ? Donovan Campbell, Jr. of the Dallas firm Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke ? who was previously known for leading a picketing of a Dallas production of ?Torch Song Trilogy.? There is also a new financier ? the conservative fund-raising outfit The Rutherford Institute ? now that Paula's pockets (and her legal fund) are apparently empty...
...harm him even though it would hurt. Not only would exercise help restore his strength, but Berde had found that it seemed also to help reprogram and quiet the misfiring nerves. Alex spent two months in the hospital. By March, six months after he first became ill, he had begun to walk with a cane. He recovered steadily, though he still needed physical therapy and took several years to regain his strength...
...that lasted more than two hours, Ernest and his team tried a new and hopeful approach to macular degeneration. They first took cells from the retina of an aborted fetus, then surgically transplanted them into Van Vliet's severely impaired left eye. Since the operation, the transplanted cells have begun to proliferate, forming minute projections that stretch toward Van Vliet's macula. For Ernest, a large, affable man of 62, the weekly ritual of scrutinizing the eye scans that chronicle Van Vliet's recovery from surgery proved intensely satisfying, not only professionally but also because of his frustrating experience with...