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PRENATAL care, as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, derives from the old Latin prenatus...
...Princeton. Sounds like the Reagan era in miniature. But there was wit in Paul Brickman's script and swank in his camera style. For Cruise, there was more. As soon as he tore into an air-guitar rendition of Bob Seger's Old Time Rock 'n' Roll, in his Oxford-cloth shirt, B.V.D.s and socks, pop magnetism burst out of its suburban shell, and a star was born...
...only thing I knew about the award was that Isaiah Berlin received it two years ago," Sen said, referring to a retired Oxford University professor...
Sheldon Meyer, the senior editorial VicePresident of the Oxford University Press, said oneof his industry's main concerns is the shrinkingmarket for specialized academic books since fewerindividuals are purchasing them and libraries haveless money to fund them...
...museums now have an endowment of about $80 million and a collection of over 140,000 art works. And according to Walsh, they rank among the world's top four university museums, rivaling Oxford, Cambridge and Yale...