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...Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 - the same year he married Joan Lois Levy. The couple have two sons: Stephen and Shanin. His wife founded a successful pie-baking company in Philadelphia and currently serves as a member of the City Council...
...appointed Philadelphia's assistant district attorney in 1959 after spending his first three years in private practice. Left the district attorney's office in 1963 to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as an assistant counsel on the Warren Commission. Became a household name as the Commission's chief architect and a vocal defender of the group's theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone...
...Following the Warren Commission, Specter joined the Pennsylvania Department of Justice as a special assistant attorney general and, in 1965, he ran against his former boss to become the Philadelphia District Attorney (Though he was a registered Democrat, he ran on the Republican ticket when he failed to secure the Democratic nomination...
...process known as neuronal cell adhesion. "They sit at the synapse, and when the nerves come together, these molecules adhere to the nerve," essentially fusing a connection in the brain, explains Dr. Hakon Harkonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a lead author of the study. Preliminary research suggests that cadherin 10 is very active in wiring the frontal cortex of the brain during fetal development...
Naturally, it was special that Harry got to call the final out of Philadelphia's World Series victory last fall. No one was more deserving of one last great moment in that booth. Harry Kalas was a man--and a voice--unto himself...