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...ragged on our visits to California or hers to New York. She introduced us to a boat-load of celebrities whom she had known forever. We?re stargazers enough to have been dazzled to meet the gracefully aging stars of our favorite old movies and TV shows - Jane Wyatt, Claire Trevor, Dorothy McGuire, many others. To us, though, Phyllis was the star. If you stick around, I?ll tell you how she shone...
...Russian submarines in 1993, some observers worried that the scrap-metal hulks still carried enough high-tech equipment to help the North learn how to build its own submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Eleven years later, those fears may have been borne out: according to a report last week in Jane's Defense Weekly, North Korea is deploying missiles built with know-how gleaned from the subs and from Russian missile scientists. (Russian officials last week denied the country's scientists were involved.) With an expected range of at least 2,500 km, the missiles could threaten the continental U.S.?although...
...Jane B. Griffith, acting deputy director at the National Library of Medicine, which was responsible for the development and implementation of ClinicalTrials.gov, said the program’s innovation lay in its comprehensive overview of available clinical trials...
Thursday next is a detective in charge of solving crimes that happen in books. Which is to say, she literally goes into books and solves crimes there. If, say, somebody were to kidnap Jane Eyre out of Jane Eyre (which happened in The Eyre Affair, the first Thursday Next novel), Thursday would be on the case. This is what the British call silliness, and people generally find it either dismal or delightful. If you're in the latter camp, prepare to be delighted by Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten (Viking; 385 pages), the fourth book in the Next series...
This is not the first time Harvard has agreed to return a multi-million dollar donation. Last February, Jane Fonda retracted the $6 million she had not yet given out of an initial $12.5 million pledge to the Graduate School of Education. She also requested—and received—the return of all the money that remained unspent from the first part of her gift, which was intended for the creation of a chair of a gender studies center. The University had abandoned plans to create the center...