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...cells have had to work a lot harder to get the muscles moving -- like an eight-cylinder car running on four cylinders -- and after 30 or 40 years, that can take its toll. "Everything has a finite life-span, from a car engine to the human heart," says Dr. Lauro Halstead, director of the postpolio program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a polio survivor. "A motor neuron is no different. Neurons that normally drive 20 muscle cells in the polio patient may now have to supply up to 2,000 muscle cells. Basically, this is a demand that...
...LAURO CAVAZOS, Secretary of Education under Bush. How he heard: About to head for Washington after giving a speech in Tyler, Texas, he was told by his staff he "was it." What he did: Watched speech with his wife in motel room. What he ate: Sandwich and Coke...
...thus far hasn't been tried on a large enough scale to make decisive conclusions about its future role. According to The New York Times, researchers discovered that less than 2 percent of students have taken advantage of statewide choice programs even though the past two Secretaries of Education, Lauro Cavazos and Lamar Alexander, have both attempted to expand the program...
...Task Forces 160 and 163. These elite counterterrorist units included helicopter pilots, crew chiefs, mechanics and other support personnel often used on hostage-rescue missions. Zona Phillips picked up an intelligence report suggesting that they belonged to Seal Team 6, the commando unit poised to recapture the Achille Lauro off the Egyptian coast before the cruise ship's hijackers surrendered...
Indeed, in announcing the review's conclusions, former Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos referred to the Harvard admissions process as observing the "principles of justice and equity." Since the late 1970s, the percentage of Asian Americans in each entering class has risen from approximately five percent to over nineteen percent. William R. Fizsimmons Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Marlyn McGrath Lewis Director of Admissions