Word: elizabeth
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...while students wore coats--you could see their breath in the air!" Mueller recalls. The new, modern system is much easier to control and even provides teachers with thermostats for individual classrooms. Difficulties with this system, however, have persuaded university officials that classroom temperature control will soon be discontinued. Elizabeth Randall, project manager for the Boylston renovation, cites wide temperature fluxuations for prompting this step: "People crank up the heat and then forget to turn it down," she said...
Theresa Muxie and Elizabeth Byrne, breast cancer survivors, told personal stories of how they beat the disease. They were joined by Mary Knust Graichen, a registered nurse at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...decades ago, experts were arguing about whether children were vulnerable to depression. Since then, doctors have found that childhood depression is common, although harder than adult depression to diagnose. With advances in scientific knowledge have come new books about childhood depression. "This has been an under-addressed category," says Elizabeth Rapoport, an executive editor at Times Books. "People didn't appreciate how complex children's inner lives...
...devoted to fair labor practices, H.R.C. was established to speak to the middle class in middle-class terms. Its annual black-tie fund-raising dinner is the peak event of the gay political season. The guest speaker last year was Clinton; this year's was Al Gore. Executive director Elizabeth Birch is a corporate lawyer from Silicon Valley, former head of international litigation at Apple Computer; she has run H.R.C. like a software start-up--new image, new logo, fast growth. After she came to H.R.C. in 1995, she quickly changed its symbol to a yellow equal sign...
...should not be morally, religiously or legally any different from opposite-sex ones. Marriage is lush with symbolism--pastors and vows, rings and rice--it's the civil heart through which the blood of state and religion both flow. "Going for marriage is like shooting for the moon," says Elizabeth Birch, head of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay political group. "It's our hardest issue, but success would bring the greatest rewards...