Word: bronx
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...native of Bronx, N.Y., Carnesale received his bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Cooper Union, his master's in nuclear engineering from Drexel University and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State...
...OPRR is also investigating an experiment at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is affiliated with the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The study gave patients L-dopa, an amino acid that stimulates dopamine -- the brain's mood-regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk...
Politicians do penance in places like Harlem and the South Bronx. They tour and deplore and promise, and very little ever changes. Last week it was Bill Clinton's turn. At a church in Harlem across the street from an abandoned building and down the block from a crack house, the master of empathy was strangely subdued. Perhaps because so much of his agenda is perceived of as dead or dying, the staple of such appearances, a litany of Administration accomplishments, was largely truncated. There was a bit of boasting ("We've done more in 20 months than anybody...
...Clinton's added to the notion beyond tax incentives for businesses is a panoply of social services (day care and job training being the most prominent) designed to produce a work force capable of staffing the enterprises likely to be attracted by the tax breaks. After the Harlem-South Bronx EZ is formally approved later this year, the Federal Government will pour $100 million into the area, an amount New York City and State will match. Added to the total $300 million will be about $70 million in low-interest loans from Fleet Bank. "Only some corporations see the opportunities...
Michael Hall, an officer in the 46th precinct in the Bronx, became the seventh of 10 New York City cops to kill themselves so far this year, already tying the record set in 1987. No one has an adequate explanation of what finally drove him over the edge, and so the speculation runs a predictable course: it was the danger, the pressure, the grinding sorrows embedded in the daily routine. Last week the New York police department released the results of a three-year study that found that cops were more than twice as likely to kill themselves as were...