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McNeil's appointment comes after Faust seriously considered at least one outsider for the job, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Elizabeth G. Nabel, who flew to Cambridge late last month for meetings related to her candidacy...
...Everest is an act of near madness. Standing on top of the peak is roughly equivalent to stopping a passenger jet in mid-flight and climbing out onto the wing. The altitude is the same, the 40[degrees]F- below-zero temperature is the same, and, most disturbingly, the lung-shredding, brain-addling atmosphere--barely one-third the pressure of sea-level air--is the same. In the 44 years since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa climber, Tenzing Norgay, first scaled the peak, more than 700 people have followed them to the top; at least 150 others have...
Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, was seen near Mass. Hall late Friday afternoon as she made her way to a waiting Lincoln Town Car headed for Logan Airport...
Nabel, a resident of Bethesda, Md. who leads the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and Reisman Professor of Medicine Jeffrey S. Flier are said to be on the top of President-elect Drew G. Faust’s list of potential replacements for HMS dean Joseph B. Martin, The Boston Globe first reported yesterday...
...finally, Sadr's return comes at a critical moment for the Shi'ite coalition that dominates the Iraqi parliament. His only real rival in Shi'ite politics, Abdel-Aziz Hakim of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, was earlier this week diagnosed with lung cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in Tehran. If the illness forces Hakim to stay away from the limelight for extended periods, it will leave Sadr as the main voice of Iraq's majority sect...