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...supportive and down-homey ("You have ears like a damn dog," ran one appreciative posting recently. "I bet you can hear a mouse pee on cotton"); novices' questions are patiently addressed and everybody knows your name. Make that every Buddy - it seems that the biggest guns in the business frequent the site, including the legendary Buddy Emmons, who is frequently referred to in postings simply as The Greatest Pedal Steel Player Who Ever Lived. A query about the history of the instrument gets me a personal e-mail from one of its elder statesmen, Maurice Anderson. It's the pedal...
After the chemotherapy, Delaney-Smith went for radiation treatments five days a week for seven weeks. The whole process was incredibly taxing on her body, but despite frequent fatigue, Delaney-Smith was patrolling the sidelines at every Harvard game and nearly every practice...
...similar lesson can be learned from the collapse of the Stoughton Hall roof. While the University may not be at fault for the damage which seems to be the result of faulty nails used in construction that occurred 10 years ago the accident should prompt more frequent, thorough inspections of the older buildings on campus. And, if the administration is planning these inspections, they should be more vocal in their reassurance to students that this type of incident will not happen again in the foreseeable future...
Prevention is the best medicine for loneliness. "Make sure you grow old surrounded by people who know you and care about you--and that you care about," says Carstensen. That means actively maintaining friendships by frequent contact throughout life...
...part, Bush "was like a prizefighter pulling himself off the mat," said a source who was in frequent touch with those at the mansion with him. He kept calling Rove at the headquarters, demanding new information. "How's it look?" he would ask. "Anything new?" By 1:30 most states had tumbled one way or the other, and both men had a total of 242 electoral votes. The counts were unimaginably, unbearably close. Florida was still undecided, but by 1 a.m., the Bush camp had more than a 200,000-vote cushion. His staff members knew Dade and Broward counties...