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...biggest government benefactor this year was the Department of Health and Human Services, which sponsored projects totalling $93.4 million. Most of this went to fund research in the Medical School and in the School of Public Health. That total includes research for AIDS...
...head of the Mafia, as the cartel is known locally, became something of a local philanthropist, building a zoo, soccer fields and an entire suburb of low-cost houses that is still called Barrio Escobar. In the manner of feudal serfs, residents in Barrio Escobar refer to their benefactor with cap-doffing deference and slip the Spanish honorific Don in front of his name...
Murphy cites the Hiatt-Harvard Worcester Program as an example. The program, which will allow Worcester teachers to study at the Ed School, was established this year by a gift from Arnold S. Hiatt '48, a benefactor of the Worcester Schools. Its first fellows will be admitted this spring...
Coach Jim Higgins starts two freshmen, Ron High and Mark Salisbury, at net. Salisbury--the benefactor of the win over Colgate--is just back from an injury and has posted a 3.41 goals-against average, along with a .876 save percentage...
...addition, tommorow's meet will be dedicated to the memory of the pool's benefactor, John Woods Blodgett, Jr., who passed away last October...