Word: gilbert
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...grasp at whatever data are available when deciding what to buy. That will be true especially for purchases made for children, whose developing brains absorb more radiation than adult brains and who could be exposed to potential harm for decades to come. That prospect has led parents like Gilbert Yablon to just say no. "I don't let my [eight-year-old] daughter talk on the cell phone," says Yablon, who runs a movie-graphics company just outside Los Angeles. "I'll take the risk for myself, but I don't want her exposed...
Miles Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House; 405 pages; $24.95) is the fleshed-out version of an article Harvey published in Outside magazine in June 1997. His topic then was a man named Gilbert Bland who had made a career in crime out of visiting major U.S. libraries and cutting maps out of valuable old books in order to sell these stolen treasures to unscrupulous collectors. Harvey's topic now has expanded to include accounts of how he researched and wrote both the original magazine piece and the subsequent book...
...begins another day at Harvard. Now, it's Officer Gilbert's turn again. Within minutes, he'll be back out on the street, searching, his eyes sweeping side to side. Tomorrow's midnight shift has begun...
HUPD Officer Andrew Gilbert says that he usually gets ready cooperation from students, not because of his gun and badge, but because of the looming threat of Harvard's Ad Board...
...long as you want to learn, they'll try to get it for you," says Officer Andrew T. Gilbert...