Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quality of Miller's work so impressed Columbia University's faculty that it recommended her to Bard College, where she was invited to teach literature to G.I.'s. She taught while finishing research for her master's thesis...
...required to effectively counter the global AIDS epidemic. The delivery of effective foreign aid requires an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the epidemic in the developing world. To foster such understanding among populations, the four branches of VISIONS in the U.S., at Harvard, MIT, Tufts and Columbia, organize an annual international conference for students, professionals and leaders of various communities...
Women like Evelyn Levin may be left weighing the potential benefits of the new drugs against their unknown risks. For example, asks Dr. Ethel Siris, an endocrinologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, "what do you do about the woman whose father had a heart attack and whose mother had breast cancer and also broke a hip?" Raloxifene won't make her problems go away, but it may give her a little more room to maneuver...
DIED. GRAYSON KIRK, 94, imperious former president of Columbia University; in Bronxville, N.Y. After he was appointed in 1953, the university's endowments quadrupled. For all his financial acumen, Kirk grossly miscalculated, when he called in 1,000 police in 1968 to quell antiwar protests. Hundreds of students were arrested and dozens injured...
...knows why the school bus swerved off the road and into the lake. All that is known by the inhabitants of the profoundly isolated small town in British Columbia, already buried in snow and melancholy, is that 14 of their children are dead and many more are injured. After such tragedy, what redemption...