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That's why doctors and nurses are starting to prescribe reading to babies along with regular checkups and vaccinations. Recently I went to Georgetown University's Medical Center with Maurice Sendak, the renowned children's author and illustrator. His book Where the Wild Things Are was one of Chelsea's--and Bill's--favorites. Mr. Sendak read the story to children, and I announced, along with representatives of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, a national campaign to put books in the hands of parents who bring their young children...
...President has groused that the biggest frustration of being in the White House is that it's so hard to get out of it, to know what is going on out there in America and to benefit from unfiltered common sense. And so when his Georgetown University hallmate David Matter complained in September about the way the organ-donor system allocates livers for transplant, with people in one city waiting months while patients elsewhere can expect them in less than two weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services was ordered to take a new look at who should...
DIED. JULES DAVIDS, 75, retired Georgetown University professor credited with helping then Senator John F. Kennedy write his 1957 Pulitzer-prizewinning book Profiles in Courage; of Alzheimer's disease; in Rockville, Maryland...
...expected to testify that at the time of her death Nicole was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and obsessed with reuniting with O.J. All this could turn the jury off. "It is not likely to work," says Michael Seidman, professor of criminal law at the Georgetown University Law Center. "It doesn't explain a million things that Simpson has to explain. But I don't know that I could come up with a better strategy...
...these elaborate Bibles circulated in Europe (mostly among the landed elite, since a single copy cost more than a peasant's lifetime earnings), they spread more than the word of God--they also set, in their rudimentary way, new technological standards. Georgetown professor Martin Irvine calls this manuscript culture "the first information age." He explains that "it was the first time a whole civilization configured around a standard technology for recording and distributing information...