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...Hancock, for instance, was sure he wanted to adopt a young child. Told he would be great with teens, Hancock, 42, an unmarried Tampa title examiner, said, "You're not going to pawn off one of your older kids on me." But when a persistent caseworker showed him a photo of Steven, 16, who had been in foster care since he was 6, Hancock and his sister-in-law, who provided moral support during the process, were charmed by a certain family resemblance. "He's one of us," they concluded. When Hancock and Steven met a week later, they developed...
...started to play with the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Miles Davis. Moving on to assemble many famed groups (including Circle, Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, the Akoustic Band and Origin) and having played with nearly every jazz great of the modern era (from Herbie Hancock to Gary Burton), Corea’s career reads like a jazz history book. Constantly stretching the limits of his art (and winning 12 Grammys in the process) Corea is undoubtedly one of jazz’s most influential keyboardists and composers...
...CHICAGO Located on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building, the women's toilets at the Signature Room restaurant offer a spectacular panorama of downtown Chicago through floor-to-ceiling windows. Meanwhile, at the city's Voyeur nightclub, women using the bathroom can operate a closed-circuit surveillance system that shows pictures of the dance floor outside?perfect for tracking a cheating date or possible catch...
...experiment were moved to other institutions in December. Those places were quickly filled by inmates from other facilities who, like Newton, say they're looking for a more meaningful way to spend their prison time than lifting weights. The religious alternative seems to be working. Assistant warden John Hancock says Lawtey's confinement wing for inmates with discipline problems usually held close to its capacity of 28 prisoners, but now rarely has more than six at a time. "We're not forcing this change on anybody," Hancock says in response to criticism that Lawtey is a thinly veiled tool...
...department is based on a 60-year-old theory which Peter Machinist—the Hancock professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages, who is NELC’s acting director of undergraduate studies and served in that position for five years in the mid-1990s—calls “reverse-ethnocentricity—studying the world from where you stand.” In Western terms, NELC’s structure is tantamount to putting what we know now as Romance Languages, Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History and Literature, Germanic Languages and History of Art and Architecture...