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...help keep the conversation flowing, the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies in England has developed the first-ever video dictionary for mobile phones. Available at www.mobilesign.org, it features over 5,000 words in British Sign Language demonstrated by a Centre staff member. The service is easy to use - you type in the word you want and then click on the video file - and it costs a mere 2? per sign. Once you have downloaded the video to your phone, it's yours to keep...
...connection between university research and global health. To illustrate the impact students can have on drug affordability, Kim discussed the student activism that led to the launch of UAEM. In the early 1990s, Yale University licensed an exclusive patent for a newly discovered HIV drug to pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb, making the drug unaffordable for most patients in developing countries. In 2001, a group of Yale students formed Universities Allied for Essential Medicine and pressured their university and Bristol-Myers to allow the distribution of a generic version that same year. Asking the audience...
...points less than the next closest teams, Navy and Roger Williams. EMILY WICK TROPHY Roger Williams might have had great success in Boston, but the team couldn’t emulate that success in its own event, the women’s Emily Wick Trophy, held on Saturday in Bristol, R.I. Two divisions saw five races each, with Harvard taking fourth place in the 10-team field. —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...next closest teams, Navy and the Hawks of Roger Williams. EMILY WICK TROPHY The Hawks might have had great success in Boston, but the team couldn’t emulate that success in its own event, the women’s Emily Wick Trophy, held on Saturday in Bristol, R.I. Two divisions saw five races each, with Harvard taking fourth place in the 10-team field. —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...accomplished it. What he seemed to be saying was that he had not yet purified those performances of autobiography, had not yet completed the process of total reinvention that was the largest promise acting held out to him as a young man. Born Archibald Leach in bleak Bristol, England, son of a drinking, defeated father and a mother who was placed in a madhouse when he was ten, he was a lonely, latchkey child, who decided on a life in show biz the first time he visited backstage. "A dazzling land of smiling, jostling people ... classless, cheerful and carefree...