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Harriot Hunt, the first woman who attempted to enter Harvard, applied to the Medical School in 1847. Sarah Pellet, in 1849, was the first to apply to the College, but immediately withdrew her application when then Harvard President Jared Sparks admonished her for applying...
...came from the mouth of Wyant; she was asked both if and why she believed in God, to which she responded affirmatively, because "my parents brought me up that way." The assailant reloaded but did not fire again. Wyant survived her 34 pellet wounds to tell this rendition of the popular myth which has now become the topic of a bestselling book by Cassie Bernall's mother, entitled She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall...
...older boy, who was almost ready to shave, brought a pellet pistol to the war, not a feckless Daisy that would merely sting but a penetrating gas-fired model, almost as wicked...
...What makes an atomic disaster so unlikely? Heat-resistant ceramic jackets around each plutonium pellet, which can easily withstand the temperature of reentry and the force of an explosion. If the system does fail, Cassini's opponents warn, trace amounts of plutonium could be inhaled and cause cancers of the lung, bone and liver. NASA's response: the average exposure would equal about 2 millirems over 50 years, a dose so mild that it makes standing next to your microwave look dangerous...
Summarizing the recommendations of the FAO report, Pellet called upon the U.N. to "enable Iraq--a potentially rich country--to use its own resources...