Word: duke
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This time, Duarte M. "Duke" Carvalho, the franchisee of the new store, exploited a loophole in the city code to open the new restaurant in the area recently vacated by the Left Bank Cafe...
...appealing is the Kratts' ironic manner, which suggests Keanu Reeves auditioning for a role as Marlin Perkins. The brothers' commentary is full of "whoas!" and "awrights!" but their breeziness never belies their smarts. Chris, 27, studied biology at Carleton College in Minnesota; Martin, 30, majored in zoology at Duke. Seven years ago, the brothers took a semester off from college, packed a Hi8 camera and traveled to Costa Rica to record wildlife adventures. After graduation, Chris received a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for study abroad and expanded the project. Eventually the brothers took their footage to Leo Eaton...
Most people know that the composer of Take the "A" Train and Satin Doll and of orchestral suites like Such Sweet Thunder was Duke Ellington. But most people are wrong. The composer, or in many cases the co-composer, of those and dozens of other hallmarks of the Ellington sound was a dapper, diminutive musicians' musician named Billy Strayhorn. From 1938 until his death of cancer in 1967, Strayhorn was Ellington's artistic alter ego--bolstered and publicly praised by the Duke but working always in his shadow, less an employee than a member of his extended household...
...team of researchers from Duke University and the New York Blood Center reported last week, the blood from a placenta is much more forgiving--largely because the immune cells in a newborn baby have not yet learned to attack foreign proteins. More than half the young patients in the study were still alive at least a year after their placental infusion; one boy is thriving three years after treatment...