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...staff member leads Konecny to Drawer No. 44 of a large steel cabinet. Inside are microfilmed lists of Ohio Civil War regiments. Konecny sits at one of the 97 viewing stations and within a few minutes finds a faded entry showing that Solomon Seif served as a private in Company I of the 136th Infantry. From a second reel about Company I, she learns that as a 20-year-old farmer, he enlisted for 100 days in 1864, shortly before the war ended, and in 1885 he applied for a pension as an invalid...
...less than $1 million, suggesting she may be following a dangerous family tradition set by her husband in his failed presidential bid: a slow start. "She hasn't put anything in place quickly," says Dickerson. "She's only announcing her New Hampshire team this coming week." Another big money drawer was former vice president Dan Quayle with $2.1 million. His good showing indicates the GOP contest will contain plenty of thunder from the right...
...vitro fertilization. Four years ago, my husband and I were blessed with our own test-tube babies--beautiful girl twins who are equally delightful but totally different. One looks just like me; the other bears little resemblance. Are they both mine? Were my eggs placed in the right drawer? In the right Petri dish? Fertilized by the right sperm? Is someone else raising one of my children? Is ignorance bliss...
...Instead of storing past issues under a bed andzip disks in a drawer [and] running from dorm roomto Science Center to lay out a magazine, studentscould rely on such a Center to take cake of eachstep of the publication process," the reportreads...
...many of our great organizations are run outof a dorm room and a desk drawer," says Seton, whohas been involved with the Institute of Politics...