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...also giving away boats, trucks and gift cards as part of the game. Overall, it's distributing $10 million in cash and prizes to its top fantasy performers. During fantasy fishing's '08 debut, many winners got lucky. Shellee Kuykendall, a stay-at-home mother of two in Little Rock, Ark., didn't know fishing even had a pro circuit until she heard about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved...
Massachusetts General Hospital received its largest donation in history yesterday—$100 million—to create a joint institute between Harvard, MIT, and affiliated hospitals with the stated goal of finding a vaccine for AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs...
...Blavatnik Family Foundation, run by billionaire Business School graduate Leonard Blavatnik, designated $5 million of the gift to fund the Harvard University Technology Development Accelerator Fund...
...weekend with an Eagle Viewing Boat Trip. The day starts with an early morning Valentine's Day breakfast, then off to the 54-foot boat to see the New England's largest winter population of bald Eagles. Warm up upon your return with afternoon tea, and get a $25 gift certificate to the nearby Audubon shop. Rates start at $315, available through March 7. 949 Boston Post Rd, Madison...
...Hospital in December. She was 67. As a scholar, Laiou spearheaded research in Mediterranean economic history and women’s history, and her 1985 appointment to lead the History department made her the first female chair of a department at Harvard. “She had the rare gift of an original mind, an iron will, and a penetrating intellect,” McCormick said. “She was fearless.” Elegantly coiffed and impeccably dressed, Greece’s former deputy secretary of foreign affairs would sweep into class like Pallas Athena herself, said history...