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...when Croatian units began shelling several U.N. observation posts. By the end of the week two more peacekeepers, both Czech, had been killed, and more than 90 U.N. soldiers had been detained by the Croats. Although there was no immediate Allied military response to the attacks, French General Bernard Janvier, head of U.N. troops in the former Yugoslavia, pledged air support to U.N. peacekeepers who were coming under fire. A pair of U.S. Navy EA-6B warplanes demonstrated the allies' resolve at dusk on Friday when they unleashed a pair of missiles at a Serb missile battery near Knin...
Dyes & Light. The institute's members have made their own great contributions to pathology. In 1864 it was one of the old museum's first pathologists, Dr. Joseph Janvier Woodward, who developed the use of newly discovered aniline dyes to stain tissues so that different components became more distinguishable. That same year Dr. Woodward took the first microscope photographs, using the sun as his light source. Major Walter Reed was the pathology museum's curator when he went to Havana as head of the team that convicted mosquitoes of carrying yellow fever, making possible control...
...Marie Louise Antoinette Hungerford. Downvill. Entrée le 15 Janvier...
...would like to add my complete appreciation of Carmelite Janvier. We are the parents of a mentally retarded child and two wonderfully normal children, and we feel personally that our lives have been enriched and matured by this experience, especially because we have come to realize how perfectly wonderful people like Teacher Janvier...
Tests & Truants. As the years passed, the city began to assign other teachers to help her. In 1940 it created its Division of Special Services and made her the first director. Soon, in addition to her visiting teachers, Director Janvier had departments of clinical reading, corrective speech and hearing, psychological testing, special education. The division started classes in hospitals, gave instruction to bed-ridden children at home, trained the stutterers and the retarded pupils, dealt with the truants and chronic delinquents. "Now," says Director Janvier, "I feel we have a division far ahead of any other down this...