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...Alpine, Wyoming, gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence Day weekend such a busy one-she noticed that her son Sean, 5, had come down with the same symptoms. That did it. Struggling to get to the car, Lowery drove Sean to the office of Dr. Donald Kirk, a physician who serves many of Alpine's 470 year-round residents. She got there just in time; shortly after she walked into Kirk's waiting room, Lowery passed out on the floor." Read more at timearchive.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...leaders of the Republican Party in 1994 were bold, passionate visionaries with the courage to go to the people with a clearly defined agenda. Issues and principles drove them. Today, their agenda stretches no further than the next election. The same people who were elected on a platform of change have become the establishment bulls who fight change today. The 1994 Republicans advocated balanced budgets. Today, they defend deficits. The 1994 Republicans wanted to eliminate government programs. Today, they propose and create them. The 1994 Republicans held themselves and Congress to a higher ethical standard. Today, they seem more interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foley: The Final Straw | 10/7/2006 | See Source »

...HCNR Director Adrian J. Ivinson said.Martin managed Harvard’s merger with the Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute in 1999. The move brought together more than 800 Harvard faculty and received a $50 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. In a similar vein, the Martin administration drove the development of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, which funnels investments from businesses to the medical community.Martin also launched the HCNR, which helped link 700 scientists in an effort to combat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Martin also pushed to increase the school?...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: He Nursed The Med School To Health | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...slowed down at all. If not for that, I’d probably be happy to be sitting at home with my wife playing Sudoku.” Schelling’s life hasn’t always been fun and game theory. “What really drove me to study economics was growing up in the midst of the depression,” he told the audience. “It seemed to be the greatest calamity that could happen, next to war. Economics was too important not to study.” Throughout his long history...

Author: By Siodhbhra M. Parkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureate Visits IOP | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...year-old victim, who was an undergraduate at the time, told The Crimson she never pressed any charges against Thomas and asked Sprague to dismiss the case. Initial reports stated that an inebriated Thomas strangled her with one hand, and then “suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest.” She was brought to Mount Auburn Hospital, where she was treated for injuries including “a large welt across [the victim’s] lower back.”But the victim met with the district attorney July 26 and gave...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prosecutor Surged On, Victim Says ‘No’ | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

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