Word: eva
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...EVA PERON Argentina's First Lady died in 1952, but after a 1955 coup her body was "lost" for 16 years--at one point hidden in an army major's office--then sent to Spain. She was entombed, finally, in Buenos Aires...
Before his death, he'd asked that the kids who had gathered petitions on his behalf sign their names on his casket. Clad in shiny parkas, jean jackets and sneakers, they autographed with magic markers in the Italian-flag colors of green and red: Riccardo, Jacopo, Eva, Alessia, all bid goodbye with messages of "Ciao!" and "Con affetto." Pastor Gioele Fuligno, a Baptist minister, led the funeral rites with a fire-and-brimstone sermon that stunned the Catholic crowd. Strangely, though, it all seemed to make sense to the 100 or so townsfolk in attendance. All of it except...
...listening to the student organizations,” said Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business President Tracy L. Britt ’07. “It means a lot to us as student groups that the College does respond to matters that affect our organizations.” Eva Liu ’08, president of Harvard China Care, said that the tax would have directly impeded the implementation of her group’s goals. “We use the money to sponsor surgeries for orphans so any amount of this that is taken away will mean that...
...called the meat “just right” and Rosen called it the “best beef so far.” Host team HRCSA prepared pearl balls and beef stir-fry, earning praise from Bryant for the dish’s presentation. According to Eva M. Luo ’08, co-president of HRCSA, the event was a huge success. “The turnout this year was much greater than last year, probably because of the increased diversity among the competing teams,” she said. “The event definitely...
...women with BRCA-1, the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone speeds the proliferation of mammary cells. "If we block the progesterone pathway using an antiprogesterone, it could prevent breast cancer," says Eva Lee, lead author of the study. That's exactly what mifepristone did for the experiment's mice, all of which had the BRCA-1 gene. At age 1, none of those treated with mifepristone had developed tumors. But all the untreated mice had tumors by the time they were 8 months...