Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Padi is thought to be the first Egyptian mummy to come to the United States with its complete burial set. He arrived at MGH in 1823 as the gift of a Dutch merchant, Jacob Van Lennep, an MGH spokesman said...
Staff Writer Jacob V. Lamar Jr., who wrote the story and was assisted by Reporter-Researchers David Ellis and Jeannie Park, says the subject had particular significance for him. "I was reminded that I was fortunate to grow up in a two-parent home and have access to a good education," notes Lamar, who joined TIME 3 1/2 years ago after graduating from Harvard with a major in history and literature. Lamar credits one of his professors, Child Psychiatrist and Author Robert Coles, with awakening his interest in social issues. Then he adds, "I don't know a black person...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
...September the Soviet weekly New Times reported that Jacob Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just...
Shrewd negotiating tactics are a familiar part of the Ghermezian success story. The family gained a North American toehold when Patriarch Jacob Ghermezian, now 86, moved to Montreal from Tehran in 1959. The family began selling Oriental rugs door to door, then opened a Montreal retail outlet, which within five years blossomed into a chain of 17 stores. The leap to real estate came in the 1960s, when the Ghermezians began snapping up land in Edmonton for as little as $100 an acre while the oil boom got under way and later sold some of the property...