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...years past, SAC was really a service to students to inspire them in politics," McLaughlin says. "[SAC was] an outward looking group who surveyed students, found things that interested the undergraduate body and searched for a political bend to campus affairs that would involve particular organizations...
...Looking Outward...
...large part of the company's success stems from the strength of the leadership beneath Welch. While GE had a strong field of seven managers to choose from in its search for Welch's successor, other businesses such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and 3M have had to turn outward in their searches...
John Henry Days indeed tackles a great amount of material but without any signs of overreaching or strain. The novel ripples outward from a central event: a three-day festival in Talcott, W.Va., commemorating the legendary black railroad worker who outhammered a steam drill but died in victory. Many of the ballads about John Henry place the epic battle he waged with the machine in nearby Big Bend Tunnel, and Talcott residents hope that John Henry Days will become an annual and tourist-friendly attraction...
...Alzheimer's disease. Selecting only the brains of sisters who had earned a bachelor's degree--to eliminate any differences attributable to education--they found that among nuns with physical evidence of Alzheimer's in the brain, those who had evidence of strokes as well almost inevitably showed outward symptoms of dementia. But only half the nuns without strokes were comparably afflicted. Says Suzman, of the National Institute on Aging: "This is one of the first studies to look at the cardiovascular component of Alzheimer's disease...