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...help—he started a one-man, unpaid recruiting and placement service for young African-American students, helping many gain admittance to the most prestigious colleges in the United States.“I had learned from my siblings that there are some very deserving people that would perish without some help from someone who is a little farther along,” Evans says. “There are so many out there even today who are near the edge, and all they need is a helping hand.”Evans’ work quickly gained...
That is all scary stuff--and it may be years away--but a worldwide epidemic is brewing. No one can tell if it will be a Category 1 or a Category 5 storm or when it will hit. Katrina taught us you can survive the initial catastrophe and perish in the aftermath. "We are seeing the unfolding of a pandemic in slow motion," Dr. Klaus Stohr of WHO told a group of business leaders at Deutsche Bank in New York City last month. "We can reduce the damage, but we cannot avoid...
Thursday, Dec. 1—Saturday, Dec. 10. Ruddisore. A country gentleman, discovered to be the cursed Baronet of Ruddigore, is doomed to do one evil deed every day, or accept his fate to perish. Agassiz Theatre. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, estimates that if terrorists triggered a meltdown at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of New York City, as many as 44,000 people could die from radiation poisoning within a year, and as many as 518,000 could perish eventually from cancers spawned by the attack. Millions of people in the greater New York area would have to be permanently relocated, and economic losses could top $2 trillion. Lyman's study echoes the findings of one done by the Sandia National Laboratories for the NRC in 1982 that said...
...Hospitals and our long neglected public health infrastructure would be quickly overwhelmed. In such a circumstance, panic, suffering, and the spread of the disease would intensify,” Frist said. “Millions might perish, with whole families dying and no one to memorialize them...