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...immense number of very devoted students who were both interested in the topic he taught and attracted by his personality,” said Ursula B. Marvin, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...DIED. JOHNNY GRIFFITH, 66, classically trained musician and pioneering keyboard wizard for the 1960s Motown band Funk Brothers, who played on legendary hits such as the Supremes' Stop in the Name of Love and Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine; in Detroit. As one of the pioneers of the Motown sound, a fusion of soul, gospel and pop, Griffith and the Funk Brothers have had a lasting impact on popular music trends through the past four decades...
...first, I thought it was in poor taste,” said Marvin C. Pittman ’02. “I was glad it didn’t end up going that...
Though most buyers of cross-border insurance policies are Latino, the price and quality of Mexican health care attract non-Latinos as well. Marvin Morton, 40, a sheriff's deputy inSan Bernardino, Calif., wanted to get laser surgery to correct his deteriorating eyesight but was unable to have the procedure he wanted covered through his U.S. insurer, Kaiser Permanente. The cost out of pocket, he said, was "outrageous" at $3,000 to $5,000. So Morton and his fellow deputies lobbied their union, which came up with an alternative. The union contracted with two doctors, one in Irvine, Calif...
...have learned such lessons from years of experience. Susan Soon-keum Cox, 50, who works for Holt International, the oldest overseas-adoption agency in the U.S. and the organization that arranged her own adoption from South Korea in 1956, learned them firsthand. She was adopted by Oregon dairy farmers Marvin and Jane Gourley in the earliest wave of babies brought into American homes and hearts after the Korean War. The Gourleys dealt with their daughter's Asian identity in a way that reflected the thinking of the time: they loved her unconditionally and encouraged her to be a good American...