Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast, there was no doubt. And hungry too. After taking brilliant advantage of the amazing public education available to New Yorkers in the first half of this century, this son of Orthodox Polish-Jewish immigrants whizzed through his medical training to fetch up at the University of Michigan an enviable fellowship to study virology under the distinguished Dr. Thomas Francis--who, incidentally, would remain in Salk's corner for life, politics or no politics...
Salk's major patron at Michigan, however, proved to be no one man but the whole U.S. Army, which needed a flu vaccine at once to help win World War II and was happy to complete Salk's education in speed under pressure. After that, it was a snap for him to set up his own peacetime lab at the University of Pittsburgh and equip it to the gills for the Great Crusade--the one that every immunologist in the world then had his eye on--against the Great White Whale itself, poliomyelitis...
...TELEVISION Maine vs. Ohio St. (hkc), NESN, 5 p.m. Celtics at 76ers, WABU, 7 p.m. Georgia vs. Duke (wbkc), ESPN, 7 p.m. Knicks at Suns, TNT, 8 p.m. Denver vs. Michigan (hkc), FSNE, 8:30 p.m. Kings at Lakers...
...Michigan State's presence in the Final Four wasn't much of a shocker either...
...Everyone else and I have Connecticut, Michigan State and Duke in the Final Four, while none of us predicted Ohio State to be anywhere near the top of the South region...