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...sense of family through churches, but at the same time he had a tremendous need for power and control. He would conduct little church services up in the loft of a barn and lock his playmates in there; later he used a firearm to try to control his best friend. These early incidents, as well as some cruelty to animals, were harbingers for the sickness that grew in him over the years...
...diagnosis by treatment. Says Edelman so-called "therapeutic trials" of asthma medication may be appropriate, based on a patient's symptoms and medical history - even without pulmonary tests. "If a 12-year-old kid comes into your office and says he wheezes every time he goes near his friend's dog, and you give him an inhaler and it never happens again, that's a therapeutic trial," he says...
...Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener’s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge of an enormous catalogue of music,” Westergren said at the talk, which was sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. A team of musicians measure and score each song using nearly 400 factors, which frame them in what Westergren calls...
...fact, Summers’ most incendiary battles with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were over what they saw as his abrasive leadership style, his firing of then-FAS dean William C. Kirby, and his possible role in the government fraud scandal that implicated his close friend, economics professor Andrei Shleifer ’82.And while these issues proved fatal to his presidency, both his supporters and critics now suggest that Summers’ difficulties leading Harvard don’t mean he wouldn’t make a good Treasury secretary.‘LOTS...
...found in the middle men who were involved in setting up the meeting. When McCain called Obama to concede defeat the night of Nov. 4, the two men talked about getting together. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina's other Senator and the person Cindy McCain calls her husband's "best friend," followed up on that call in a conversation with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for White House chief of staff. Then Obama spoke directly with Graham, and out of that came the decision to hold the meeting sooner rather than later. (See pictures of Obama's campaign...