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...children's-book author, David Kirk has a gilt-edged resume: son of puppeteers from Ohio; onetime toymaker; lives in a home in the woods full of small model robots and often works from his two-story Victorian-style tree house; has two daughters, Violet and Primrose, and another, Wisteria...
...visiting fellows are: Dimitrus Avranopoulos, former mayor of Athens; Jeff Blodgett, campaign manager for former Senator Paul Wellstone; Glen Browder, a former member of Congress from Alabama; Andrew Cuomo, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas; Constance Morella, a former member of Congress from Maryland; Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans; Zvi Rafiah, former Israeli diplomat and Swift...
...arterial calcifications. (These calcifications--streaky white lines on a mammogram--are not to be confused with the kind of calcium deposits that appear elsewhere in the breast and may signal cancer.) No one suggests that women rush out for a mammogram just to check their heart. But, says Dr. Kirk Doerger, lead investigator of the study, "if you're already having a mammogram, you can get additional information with no extra radiation or cost." What to do if a radiologist spots arterial calcifications on your mammogram? Get to your doctor for a physical. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...panics. Some Trekkies are annoyed. Earlier this year, feminist Donna Minkowitz argued in the Nation magazine that "["Enterprise"] is the first Star Trek really interested in punishing women." That's an exaggeration, but Trek does seem to be returning to the gender roles of the original series, in which Kirk was a spectacular cad. While the new captain, Jonathan Archer, doesn't canoodle much, he's like Kirk in another way. In 2000 conservative writer John Podhoretz noted in the Weekly Standard that while the original series "promoted an idealistic vision of the U.S. as an exporter of democracy," fluffy...
Over 100 students, many of them bussed in from Cambridge by the H-Club, arrived early enough at Franklin Field to cheer on the team during ESPN’s live broadcast. They noisily objected when GameDay analysts Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit both picked Penn to win, though they couldn’t really argue with the experts at game?...