Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking to build some momentum going into Saturday's game against Columbia," co-captain Rachel Chernikoff said...
...copy of it are invariably doomed to a lingering, unpleasant death from an illness that is as yet incurable. This also means that the test results will sound either a death sentence or a reprieve--a fact that must be made clear during pretest counseling, says Nancy Wexler, the Columbia University clinical psychologist whose research led to the discovery of the Huntington's gene. Because of their decision to take the test, she says, some 50,000 Americans are living without symptoms but with the dismaying knowledge that they have the Huntington's gene and will someday succumb...
Panic disorder probably results from a "combination of a genetic predisposition and some number of traumatic separations in childhood," according to Dr. Jack Gorman, a Columbia University psychiatrist. But whatever the cause, the brain of a person who suffers from it is different from that of someone who does not. Stimulation studies using the drug yohimbine have revealed an abnormal firing rate in an area of the brain stem called the locus ceruleus, which is rich in cells that release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, the trigger for human fight-or-flight response. This primal alarm system has obvious survival value--useful...
...former associate editor of Jet Magazine, Gilliam also served as president of the National Associate of Black Journalists. She is the winner of numerous awards, including Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Alumni of the Year and the Capital Press Club's Journalist of the Year...
After finishing law school, Bennett found another mentor in Charles Frankel, a Columbia philosophy professor who became president of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and hired Bennett as his executive director. One spring morning in 1979, Bennett arrived for an overnight visit with Frankel and his wife at their mansion in Bedford Hills, New York, but he hadn't even unpacked his bags before he was called away on urgent business. That night, the Frankels were murdered by burglars, who were caught and found to have been high on amphetamines...