Word: jim
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...layperson, it appears to me that the relative response has far exceeded the need," said councilor Jim Braude, who sponsored an order requesting a report on whether the spraying was needed...
...What the foundation has done has really shaken up the entire public health world," said Jim Y. Kim, instructor in medicine and the grant's principal investigator. "Even a year ago no one would say we have to think about MDR-TB all over the world...but the Gates Foundation is taking...
...Games are resilient, the Olympic spirit unsinkable, because the Games produce heroes, and it is in the nature of heroism to vanquish all opponents. When a Jim Thorpe or a Wilma Rudolph or a Mark Spitz or a Nadia Comaneci wins an event, he or she has not only defeated an opponent but has also put out of mind the criticism of the Games. Unlikely heroes emerge. Our aspirations and hopes become hitched for a few days or hours to a person whose face we have never seen before and whose name we have never heard...
...mail and e-commerce, add e-office gossip. In industry after industry, the kind of chat that once occurred at the water cooler is moving online. Journalists are hooked on Jim Romenesko's MediaNews poynter.org/medianews) a site that in addition to aggregating news stories about the media posts e-mail from media professionals. (A recent topic: a schoolyard fight between journalists and p.r. agents in which the reporters accused the flacks of being overly aggressive and underinformed.) Investment bankers prefer vault.com where they can keep tabs on which of their colleagues is getting richest and who's sleeping with...
...Macho producer Jerry Bruckheimer is releasing Remember the Titans (Sept. 29), an integration drama with Denzel Washington set in 1971 against the backdrop of high school football. Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller do some bonding (and some hilarious head butting) in Meet the Parents (Oct. 6). And Jim Carrey's heart grows several sizes in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Nov. 17). Must be those treatments from Nurse Betty...