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Like many medical researchers, Snowdon has cultivated an affectionate, intensely personal relationship with his subjects, all members of a Roman Catholic religious order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Before his group publishes a new paper, Snowdon carefully makes the rounds of all the convents to make sure the sisters hear the news first. About a month ago, for example, he stopped by the rambling brick convent in Mankato, Minnesota, which serves as the headquarters for one of the order's seven U.S. provinces. "You've got to be good friends before you ask somebody for their brain," he jokes...
...Walt Disney. Caselotti possessed a similar innocence about the outside world when she was picked at the age of 17 to bring Snow White to life for a whirlwind adventure with Seven Little Dwarfs and an evil stepmother. In a 1993 interview, Caselotti, who was educated in a convent outside of Rome, said that she didn't even realize she was working on Disney's first feature-length production until the movie's star-studded premiere. Paid $970 for her role in making the lighthearted Snow White part of American movie folklore, Caselotti never saw her career venture much beyond...
...Torre has a face like...well, like the gift his sister gave him when she went into the convent in 1951. "She gave me a baseball glove, a Rawlings," the New York Yankees manager recalled a few days before he was to lead his team into its 34th World Series but his first. "She told me to say an Our Father every time I put the glove on, figuring if she gave me rosary beads, I'd never...
Since June 1, Union Summer activists have fanned out to 20 cities. Paid a stipend of $210 a week, they are given free housing: an East Boston, Massachusetts, convent; a Chicago youth hostel; a Beaufort, South Carolina, trailer park. They are joining protesting sewage-plant workers in Denver; demonstrating against unfair labor practices on riverboat casinos in St. Louis, Missouri; pressuring a Washington department store to stop buying suits made in sweatshops; offering legal advice to strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California. They are picketing beach hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers...
...said commercial electricity rates will be cut in half. Those big items are ruinous enough, but Yeltsin's aversion to fiscal sanity goes further. In Yaroslavl, for example, he pledged $700,000 to house veterans of the Afghanistan war, $10,000 to help with the housekeeping costs at a convent of the Russian Orthodox Church, $20,000 to build a Muslim cultural center and $2 million for new barracks at a military college...