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...colleagues will always benefit from having known her, but we?d like future employees of Time to be able to learn from her professional example too. So we are establishing the Joanna Chapman Development Grant, a vocational training scholarship to be awarded annually. The judges won't care which branch of the Time family the winner works for; they'll just be looking for someone with Joanna?s genuine thirst for knowledge. This, I hope, will be a fitting memorial to the extraordinarily brave young woman whom we all-Church and State alike-miss very much...
...safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed." But when the head of the Samara branch of Inkombank called and said that relatives of Malevich were offering a Black Square, Nikich joined other experts in traveling to Samara to take a closer look...
...pardon seekers, Rodham fits the official criteria (the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 defines lobbyists as individuals who (1) spend at least 20 percent of their time for a particular client on lobbying activities; (2) have multiple contacts with legislative staff, members of Congress, or high-level executive branch officials; and (3) work for a client paying more than $5,000 over six months for that service). This means he can officially be called a "lobbyist." It also means he's subject to a few rules: According to the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, "Whoever...
...Brotchie's enthusiasm is shared by Dr. Thomas N. Chase, a neurologist who heads the experimental therapeutics branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. "We don't work with street drugs, but we are not averse to taking clues from all sources," Chase says. "Parkinson's is a condition for which there is no adequate therapy, so if this observation with ecstasy is reliable, it could lead to a line of research which could benefit many, many people with this disease. And my guess is that this observation will...
...Britney, the marketing of sexy clothes and makeup to prepubescent girls is booming. Rave Girl, a national chain, sells feather boas, leather pants and stretch flares to girls ages 7 and up. "Girls' clothes started getting sexier about two years ago," says Jaime Williams, a manager at a branch outside Chicago. "Basically, everybody wants to be a princess. Not like the ones in fairy tales, but a hot princess like Britney." In Manhattan, designer boutiques like Betwixt and Infinity sell adult labels at adult prices in Alice-in-Wonderland sizes. A pair of Diesel jeans at Betwixt costs...