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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...without sales and property taxes for two years. Five weeks after Katrina, there is no electricity and no hope of any in the coming weeks. Not one gas station or grocery store is open. The lone hospital has been shuttered--for good. Sheriff Jack Stephens, who has had to lay off half his department, is worried about keeping the parish's remaining 182 deputies on the payroll. All his communications and tactical gear, along with most of his department's 136 vehicles, were lost. With the National Guard largely gone, his men are stretched thin, answering calls about looters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rebuilding: Starting from Scratch | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...want to make it to the finish line without becoming a sick d-bag en route, lay your right hand on John Harvard’s sculpted junk and swear your allegiance to these commandments. If you are suspicious about taking our advice (fair point), consider the following: freshman year we were riding Mongoose BMX bikes through the Yard. Now we ride in a Ford Escape...

Author: By Christopher J. Catizone and Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: THE BELL LAP: Pacing Yourself | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

Scadden stressed that the therapeutic direction in which work with adult stem cells is now moving will help lay the groundwork for a similar transition with embryonic stem cells...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grant To Finance Stem Cell Research | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

...Writing about work like theirs is usually an uphill battle. Nobel-worthy research can be impenetrable to a lay audience, and the men and women doing it tend to be shy and retiring. Not so these two. Warren, known for his absolute loyalty to the bolo tie, wasn?t afraid to go out on a limb for an improbable idea. Back in 1979, Warren, who was then working at Royal Perth Hospital, observed a spiral bacteria growing in the stomachs of people with gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach. He became the butt of jokes among his colleagues, who knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporter's Notebook: Australian Medicine Men Win the Big One | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

Edward Childs, a dining hall worker whose contract expires in June of 2006, criticized a policy that allows Harvard to lay off dining hall workers during the summer and prevents them from receiving unemployment benefits...

Author: By Adrian J. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Workers Seek Living Wage | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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