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...Born premature, Jeffs was favored by his father, former sect leader, Rulon Jeffs; with some 60 siblings, being singled out was a rare treat. "He was considered the golden boy and never had to work a day in his life," says investigator Sam Brower, who has been working on polygamy civil cases for the past three years. Jeffs was known to be the primary gatekeeper for access to the prophet, his father, when he was alive but ailing in health. "I'm convinced he's also a sociopathic narcissist who is extremely cunning," says Brower. It is estimated, that Jeffs...
...impulse to escape: the helpless elderly see the nursing staff as bored and grudging; though many nurses are heroically selfless, some think of themselves as stuck at the bottom of their profession. "Nurses who work in nursing homes traditionally have been stigmatized by their professional peers," says H. Terri Brower, a professor of nursing at the University of Miami's School of Nursing. Says Ruth Tappen, another professor at the school: "Nurses are not interested in working in nursing homes. They don't want to go near the places." In a study of 581 nurses working in southern Florida, Brower...
Such concerns have, in fact, led a number of schools, including the M.B.A. programs at UCLA and the University of Virginia, to look into blocking Internet access during lectures. "I tell my students not to treat me like TV," says University of Wisconsin professor Aaron Brower, who has been teaching social work for 20 years. "They have to think of me like a real person talking. I want to have them thinking about things we're talking about...
...needed to rebuild sandbars and beaches but also drowned a spectacular landscape far bigger than the Hetch Hetchy Valley. Thanks to a multiyear drought that has only recently eased, the landscape has begun to re-emerge, energizing an effort by the Glen Canyon Institute to correct what conservationist David Brower called "America's most regretted environmental mistake." It's bound to be an uphill battle. The Glen Canyon Dam is part of the seven-state Colorado River water-storage and delivery system, with a large, powerful constituency that depends...
...Halal meat entrees will tentatively be offered every Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Adams House Brower Room. In addition, all the dining hall refrigerators will stock frozen Halal patties and hot dogs, according to Vaidya...