Word: englands
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Teuber published a report in the New England Journal of Medicine last week on the role kissing plays in triggering food allergies. It turns out that a surprising number of people who are allergic to peanuts have had bad reactions--in one case, severe enough to be sent to the hospital--from smooching with someone who'd been eating the nuts...
...year was 1641. Harvard College, a cash-poor five-year-old institution of higher learning, sent three Cambridge, Mass., preachers to England on a “begging mission.”When the pioneering preachers arrived, they realized what is now a precept of fundraising: they needed some literature. The trio sent word of its epiphany back across the Atlantic, and so in London in 1643 there appeared “New England’s First Fruits”—“the first of countless public relations pamphlets and brochures,” according...
...While politicians seem poised to tackle those ignominies, they have been preoccupied with personal aspirations, notably President Olesegun Obasanjo's efforts to change the constitution and run for a third term. Until government institutions embrace a truly democratic culture, the prevailing mayhem will hold sway. Jide Martyns Okeke Bradford, England...
...couldn’t have begun better for Sloan Devlin. After skippering the B-division boat for the Harvard women’s sailing team to a national title only a few months before, the former co-captain of the Crimson spent the fall winning her third consecutive New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship, all while preparing for her Rhodes Scholarship finalist interviews. She had already almost won the Quantam Women’s Sailor of the Year award as a junior, finishing second, and she had already been named an All-American twice. Now, as her career...
...years, it had become a signature event of New England sports. Everything that could have happened, did—an unforgettable Crimson 29-29 “win” in 1968, the purported strangling of real bulldogs by Harvard coaches, the Crimson’s first of six national championships 116 years ago.Its reputation had preceded it—the action on the field had begun to gain a secondary relevance.Apparently, someone forgot to tell that to the 2005 Harvard football team.In a series that had offered everything imaginable since its inception in 1875, the now-annual year...