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...seen such a ship before, the sense of its significance overwhelms Deeti, and she hangs a portrait of the Ibis in her family shrine.It is hinted that other figures will come to have their portraits hung next to the Ibis in the shrine—Zachary, the light-skinned freedman who rises from carpenter to first-mate on the Ibis during its disastrous journey from America; Jodu, a young boatman who grew up in the household of an aristocratic Frenchman; Neel, a fading maharajah—but by the end of this novel they have only just come together onboard...
...rainy morning started with a dockside press conference with Eliasson, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Susan Freedman, president of the Public Art Fund that was the guiding force behind the project. Then the mobile media mosh pit, including myself, toured The Waterfalls from the deck of a Circle Line boat. Something just like it will take people around the sites several times a day between now and when the Falls come down on October 13. If you're familiar with The Maid of the Mist, the boat that tootles around Niagara Falls, you've got it pictured, though Eliasson...
Doctors do know that obese kids nearly always bloom into obese adults. CDC epidemiologist David Freedman evaluated 30-plus years of data and found that of the children who technically qualified as obese, two-thirds grew up to be very obese adults. "Even down to the youngest ages that I've worked with, age 5, overweight kids have maybe a tenfold increased risk of becoming obese adults," Freedman says...
...civil libertarians, human rights activists and lawyers who have been challenging the Bush Administration's stance on Guantánamo for years hailed the Supreme Court decision as a major step forward. "The court has brought the Constitution home from exile," said Professor Eric M. Freedman, Maurice Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra and a longtime adviser to lawyers representing prisoners at Guantánamo. "Everyone who believes that America is a country devoted to the rule of law should celebrate because this ruling says that the Executive needs to be accountable to a neutral judicial forum...
...kick in from its own funds over the next five years.“In these five years, we want to arm the people who want to do clinical and translational research with the tools, support, and nurturing they need to address diseases,” said Steven D. Freedman, the associate dean for clinical and translational research.Prior to the CTSC grant, the University had been awarded four General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) grants from the NIH to conduct a wide range of clinical studies at academic health care centers, including Mass. General and Brigham and Women?...