Word: brigham
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Then again, it would not be Harvardian to slap a ban on alcohol. After all, which universities do? Brigham Young and Oral Roberts University...
Former women's soccer and men's lacrosse Coach Bob Scalise and women's swimming Coach Maura Costin Scalise are the proud parents of a bouncing boy, Michael Joseph Scalise. Michael was born February 10, at 1:11 a.m. in Brigham and Women's Hospital and weighed in at seven Ibs. and 15 ounces. Both mom and son retuned home last night...Harvard basketball Coach Peter Roby and Sandra Gullickson Roby are proud parents of Kayla Alexandra, a seven lb., 4 1/2-ounce baby, born February...
...million, six-year U.S. study, conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, covered 22,071 male physicians, ages 40 to 84, with no ) history of prior heart disease or stroke, for an average of 4.8 years. Half the group took a 325-mg tablet of aspirin every other day, the lowest dose the researchers considered both safe and effective; the other half received a placebo. This past December a board of medical experts monitoring the study decided that the results were "sufficiently compelling," as Yale Cardiologist Lawrence Cohen put it, to interrupt the study...
Most of the 40,000 polygamists scattered throughout Utah are peaceful. They follow the admonition of Mormon Leader Brigham Young: "The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." For the devout, polygamy means a chaste life where sex is initiated mainly at the invitation of the wife. In the 19th century, polygamy served to cement ties among Mormon families...
...space station Mir, a prototype of one from which the Soviets hope to send men to Mars before the end of the century. The same day, NASA announced that part of a newly designed booster rocket had failed during a test firing at a Morton Thiokol plant near Brigham City, Utah, causing an undetermined delay in the faltering effort to resume U.S. manned space missions. At the same plant, five workers were killed when nearly 100,000 lbs. of solid rocket propellant for an MX missile section accidentally ignited. Since a similar fueling procedure is used for the shuttle boosters...