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CLARIFICATION: The second paragraph of the Nov. 7 news article "Medical Device Companies Report Payments to HMS Doctors" stated that Thornhill and Scott received $6.7 million each since the beginning of 2007 from DePuy Orthopedics. They received this money as royalty fees for their hip and knee replacement products...
...SMART Boards. My English department, also sponsored by federal funds, just purchased thousands of dollars worth of literature. Most of my students, however, do not need copy machines and an edition of Anna Karenina. They first need to know that a period comes before quotation marks and that a paragraph is always indented...
...have one of the most recognizable faces in science. Does that make you an academic rock star? If not, what would?SP: Well, journalists love to use that as a way of kind of saying “who the hell is he” in the first paragraph in an article. I just came from England where there were five different articles about me and they all started with the rock star hook.7.FM: You appeared on The Colbert Report this past February and summed up the brain in 5 words. Can you sum up being an academic rock star...
...That tribute, like my opening paragraph, betrays a nostalgia for a kinder, gentler moviescape, back when stars spoke love in whispered metaphors and a leading lady knew how to get out of a limo without exposing her crotch. But that notion of refinement was a fiction too. It happened to be the prevailing tone of A-list movies of the 40s that lingered through the 50s. Kerr was not some elevated being who allowed herself to be photographed. She was an actress, convincingly playing these roles. And though her career was never marked by scandal, off-camera she could...
...would-be revolutionaries in France or smugglers pushing illegal substances in Japan. All of the characters in the book are well-read, well-traveled, and well-aware of the perils of the twentieth-century lifestyles they lead. In that sense, the underlying theme of despair is in almost every paragraph, even the ones that catch Ricardo and his bad girl at a truce. There is a suggestion that the abnormality of their relationship is merely a particular strain of a disease we’ve all caught, a suggestion that the unconventional is today’s norm...