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...very close to going to Duke, where the social scene is mainly fraternities and sororities, and I thought if I went to Duke, it would be definitely something I'd be interested in," she says...
...wasn't what Barak's advisers thought he should do, but the political brawl that has begun behind the scenes in Labor suggests he might be smart to let his rivals duke it out. Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, a former Peace Now activist, is the front runner to take over. But old campaigner Shimon Peres is fighting for the job and has already signaled that he's in favor of a national-unity government. At least four others have declared they will try for the job. By week's end, Barak was still controlling coalition negotiations with Sharon and being...
...years David Rasmussen, 72, a retired airline dispatcher living in Clarksville, Va., had solved at least one crossword puzzle a day. But for a while after he underwent double-bypass surgery at Duke University Medical Center last October, Rasmussen hardly glanced at his beloved crosswords. "I found it hard to concentrate," Rasmussen recalls. "All I wanted to do was sit around and watch television...
...study, conducted by Dr. Mark Newman and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center, tracked 261 patients and periodically gave them standardized tests of cognitive function. Many recovered fully in the weeks after surgery, but about a third did not. In general, patients who were older, less well educated or who had previously experienced mental confusion in the aftermath of the surgery appeared to be at greatest risk of a long-term decline. (Vice President Dick Cheney was 47 when he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in 1988.) What surprised Newman's team most, however, was that the rate of impairment, after...
...nothing more than a Hallmark holiday created to take money out of our wallets, though the practice of making and sending Valentine's cards began more than 500 years before Hallmark was founded? (The oldest surviving Valentine's Day card currently resides in the British Museum; the Duke of Orleans sent it to his wife while he was locked in the Tower of London in 1415. Hallmark was founded...