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...from the spill of heavier-than-air toxic gas. “This resolution will be much needed support for the disaster’s survivors,” she said. “They have not been forgotten.” —Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Candies' have risen from $50,000 to $3 million since the company was started in 1998. And it's not just candy. With the power of the Internet, other purveyors of childhood memories are resurrecting '50s-era toys and games, including wooden alphabet blocks with old-fashioned lettering and Fisher-Price Snoopy pull toys. They're also experiencing a surge in demand for best sellers from the 1940s like Slinkys, Nok Hockey and Uncle Wiggily. "The pendulum has swung back to these classic playthings," says Ken Moe, managing director of Back to Basics Toys, a company based in Herndon...
...physical game, and it always will be.”In this year’s edition four key players went down, fortunately not for any extended period of time.Late in the first half senior running back Clifton Dawson was hit hard by junior defensive end Patrick Fisher for a loss.Dawson was slow to get up, and with an injury timeout, he remained off the field for the next play and the last few minutes of the first half.Just a couple of plays later, senior wide receiver Corey Mazza went down after a big gain that would be negated...
...haired rodents with a way to brown. And the discovery could have major implications for the prevention of melanoma—a disease that is estimated to strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, has found that induced tans protect at-risk mice—and, potentially, humans—from skin cancer. For the study, Fisher generated red-haired mice, which, like fair...
...deny that some families have this problem of coddling, pushing and overachieving - but not one of these problems is the public menace it's supposed to be. "A social trend is whatever is happening to a newspaper editor and the editor's friends," Claude Fisher, a professor of Sociology at U.C. Berkeley, says with a laugh...