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...spokeswoman for Kennedy called the comparison “absurd.” “This social club has zero in common with CAP, an organization designed to promote an agenda that rolled back the clock on equality and justice,” the spokeswoman, Laura Capps, said in an interview on Wednesday night. Capps noted that when Kennedy graduated from the College in 1956, women from Radcliffe had just begun to attend Harvard classes. “When Senator Kennedy joined the all male social club called Owl, there were no women at Harvard,” Capps...
...Laura Pizzuto, 78, of Seattle admits she loses her words every now and then. An avid gardener, she will sometimes forget the name of a familiar plant. "But I know how to look things up," she says. "Or I can go to the library or call a friend." Occasional memory lapses are not going to slow down this professional artist. "I want to keep myself going so I can work and enjoy my grandchildren," she says...
...bedtime and mealtime routines, brings order to babies' lives, which helps them organize their thinking," explains Tamis-LeMonda. Being able to anticipate future events as well as remember and create memories of past patterns fosters cognitive development. "Babies are very good at tracking statistical information in their environment," says Laura Schulz, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at M.I.T. "They're incredibly sensitive to human action and to intentional acts in the world. They watch what people are doing to learn causal connections." Babies will grab the same object over and over, replicating experiences, testing them out, conducting their...
...preliminary report is that it’s a mild pull,” Haggerty said. “Hopefully she’ll be back by the end of the month.” Harvard had just one double-winner during the afternoon, as captain Laura Maludzinski finished first in both the 800 meters and the mile with times of 2:18.54 and 5:16.89, respectively. She also anchored the 4x800 meter relay team to a 9:31.70 win of the event, when she turned a large deficit at the start of the last leg into a three-second...
...could add mobile-phone service to its mix in a "quadruple play." Virgin Mobile's board rejected the initial offer but analysts now expect NTL to increase its bid by around 10%. "The market is telling us that it's still expecting this deal to go through," says Laura Mills of Merrill Lynch in London. Pay-TV operator British Sky Broadcasting is buying the British broadband network Easynet for $367 million. Deutsche Telekom is trying to buy back the outstanding shares of T-Online, the Internet services arm it spun off at the height of the dotcom boom. And Italy...