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Harvard quarterback Neil Rose, whom I called a “wise old man” in a feature about the 23-year-old captain (Nov. 22, 2002). Reports from the field say that Rose is now working for a hedge fund in Hawaii, so I amend my phrase to “wise, rich...
...rich in calcium also provide another benefit: they help ward off obesity. The latest findings, presented last week at a meeting of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, come from a study of 321 girls, ages 9 to 14, conducted by Rachel Novotny and colleagues at the University of Hawaii. The girls who consumed more calcium weighed less and had less abdominal...
...Krupnik was an English professor at Harvard and one of Anastasia’s major childhood traumas involved relocating from Cambridge to the character-less suburbs. If Anastasia didn’t stay 13 years old forever, however, Lowry speculated that she might have matriculated to the University of Hawaii (but that wouldn’t have been her choice) or more probably to Berkeley. “I would have to make it interesting,” Lowry said, “I couldn’t just send her to Vassar and have her major in English because...
...think they [North Koreans] are mentally preparing if not prepared for the eventuality of surgical strikes at least,” said Dae Sook Suh, a professor at the University of Hawaii, mentioning that he worried that Japan might develop nuclear weapons in response to North Korea, starting an arms race...
...National Guard soldiers soon took over and ordered every home to be blacked out at night. They shot at any light showing through the cracks. In our darkened, humid rooms, we huddled in dismay at the way our ancestral Japan had put a curse on all Japanese living in Hawaii. Other ethnic groups looked upon us as the enemy, not to be trusted. Our village elders soon got together to burn or destroy anything to do with Japan: photos of the Emperor, flags, swords and even shortwave radios that could be turned into transmitters. Still, the police on the sugar...