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Even as a kid, he was a really engaging speaker and character. He would go out and play minister. He would entertain people. He had a way of spinning words and a power to his voice. He drew people who were basically religious for the most part in the early years. They were hard-working people, and they were drawn initially to a rare thing in the Midwest, an integrated Christian congregation. When Jones brought his group to California, he started attracting a broader base of people, too. Not just people from the churches, especially the black churches, but also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Jonestown Survivor Remembers | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...there is an established and often successful history in medicine of diagnosis by treatment. Says Edelman so-called "therapeutic trials" of asthma medication may be appropriate, based on a patient's symptoms and medical history - even without pulmonary tests. "If a 12-year-old kid comes into your office and says he wheezes every time he goes near his friend's dog, and you give him an inhaler and it never happens again, that's a therapeutic trial," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Is Asthma Overdiagnosed? | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...root of the abandonment problem is that there is simply not enough help for parents in crisis. In Nebraska, for instance, there are only six child psychiatrists in the entire state, he says. "It's a national problem ... insurance often won't pay after six visits - so if the kid's not 'fixed,' you're out of luck. States have a jumble of services. It's a puzzle with missing pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abandoned Children of Nebraska | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...lurking behind every joke. At the end of her final monologue, speaking into the recorder, she asked Nixon a question: How do you trust a government where each party is constantly telling you not to trust the other one? How is that not like a father telling his scared kid, “Your mommy doesn’t love you, but I do?” Someone has to be lying. So Byck tried to kill the President.Rich wasn’t the only highlight. Steven A. Travierso ’09 was terrific as Lee Harvey Oswald, wringing...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Assassins' Rocks the Relevance | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...ball back, and Garton once again devastated Harvard’s defense. Garton carried twice for 29 of his 174 yards on the game, including a 13-yard touchdown scamper that pulled the Quakers within three once again with 4:36 to play.“We knew this kid was athletic,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “We knew that really, as a young quarterback, running was going to be more his forte, so we were very aware of it, we practiced it. We didn’t tackle great, for one thing...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penn Picked Off | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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