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...Ellen Ripstein, a researcher for a TV game show (could it be Jeopardy?) who, after a dozen or more years in the top five at Stamford, was profiled in a front-page Wall Street Journal story in 2001, and won the tournament that year, to chants of "El-len! El-len!" The lifelong New Yorker describes herself as "a little nerd girl," but she knows her worth. "I had a boyfriend once" - once, she says - "who would sort of try to put me down. And I would say, 'Well, what are you the best in the country...
...clinical uncertainties need to be addressed as well. Tamoxifen reduces the risk of noninvasive breast cancers (ductal carcinoma in situ and lobular carcinoma in situ), while raloxifene does not. "Expert opinion is going to be very important in interpreting this," says Dr. Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer Society. "We're certainly looking forward to all the information being examined and discussed...
...GUARD SITTING in a plastic garden chair in the Gem Palace garage may or may not be listening as I spell my name for the second time. "Marie-Hélène. I'm here to see Mah-ree Eh-len," I insist, mindful that his reserve could be linked to the millions of dollars in jewels just upstairs. His wobbly head shake becomes more vigorous. "He only knows Gujarati. He says you can go up," a male voice calls...
...think that anything from the Ten-Year Plan is influencing [the number of homeless individuals],†Semonoff said. “But the plan has raised awareness and focused some attention on the need for our community to focus on the chronically homeless.†Len J. Thomas, director of the Cambridge Multi-Service Center for the Homeless, said that Cambridge has always devoted significant attention to its homeless population. But he added that the effects of the Ten-Year Plan have already begun to show. “There is a greater emphasis on coordination...
...DIED. LEN DRESSLAR, 80, booming voice behind advertising's leaf-clad Jolly Green Giant, the Rice Krispies' Snap and other pitchmen; in Palm Springs, Calif. The jazz baritone often joked that his tuneful rendition of the vegetable-peddling giant's "Ho, ho, ho!" put his two daughters through college...