Word: brigham
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Fire and smoke streamed across the desert outside Brigham City, Utah, last week as Morton Thiokol successfully fired its redesigned booster rocket for NASA's shuttle fleet. With the test, the crippled shuttle program cleared its first major technical hurdle in resuming flights, now set for next summer...
MARRIED. Sharlene Wells, 23, Miss America of 1985; and Robert Allen Hawkes, 25, a physical therapy student; in Salt Lake City. Wells, like her husband a Mormon attending Brigham Young University, attributed her beauty crown to the pageant's need for restored wholesomeness after disclosures that 1984 Winner Vanessa Williams had posed nude for photographs...
That was the conclusion reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team led by Gynecologist Daniel Cramer of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease...
Business School Professor Emeritus E. Robert Livernash, renowned in the fields of collective marketing and labor relations, died of cancer earlier this week at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was 77 years...
...major cases of fraud at the Medical School have prompted concern, though Tosteson does not cite them in his letter. The first came in 1981, when an associate professor in a laboratory at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, John R. Darsee, admitted to fabricating data. An investigation resulted in the retraction of a series of reported findings in scientific journals. The recent disclosure of misconduct by a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ellis Reinherz at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has lent a kind of scientific confirmation to the occurrence of fraud at Harvard...