Word: markey
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Edward J. Markey, the newly elected U.S. Representative from Massachusetts's Seventh Congressional District, is in some ways not the type of man from whom nascent politicos can derive a great deal of comfort. On the one hand, Ed Markey is a young politician who came from nowhere in the polls to win one of the most confusing and hard-fought Democratic primary battles for a Congressional seat in Massachusetts history. He showed that, in Massachusetts at least, you don't have to enter a campaign with a large electoral base or ties to a powerful political machine...
...When Markey announced his candidacy for the Seventh District seat last spring, he was only 29 years old and a second-term representative in the state legislature. During the summer primary campaign, he turned 30, but he was still acutely aware that if elected, he would be perhaps the youngest member of the House. Youth is often an advantage, but in practical terms, the only people who successfully run for Congress at age 29 are either personally wealthy, blessed with a famous name, or are war heroes. Markey was none of these, and most of the politicians in his home...
...Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are experimenting with a technique that could enable physicians to determine with precision whether a bone is strong enough to bear weight. So far, their research has focused exclusively on a long leg bone, the tibia, to which a vibrating machine is attached. After the bone is vibrated at various...
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