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Duke University Medical Center is one of the crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just...
Strauss settles back in the Piedmont sunshine. In a chair nearby, her husband sits silently. "I knew I wasn't going to curl up and die," she says. When she first learned she had cancer, her son, who is a physician, was worried that his mother would not live to see her first grandchild, not yet born at the time...
...Identity is always fluid, always changing with respect to other identities," Gates said. He spoke of his own search for identity as a student at Yale. "In Piedmont, [Gates' hometown] I learned to be a Negro. At Yale, I was determined to learn to be black...
...first specific tip about Jewell came on July 27, the day of the bombing, in a phone call from Ray Cleere, the president of Piedmont College in Georgia, where Jewell had worked as a security guard until last May. Cleere said he had seen Jewell on television being acclaimed as a hero. Cleere wanted to tell the FBI that Jewell had been "a little erratic," "almost too excitable" and too gung-ho about "energetic police work...
...obituaries had been written for New York Newsday, the Norfolk Ledger-Star in Virginia, the Baltimore Evening Sun and the 93-year-old Greenville Piedmont of South Carolina, while a grand total of 13,000 newspaper employees, 2.6% of the newspaper work force, lost their jobs or took buyouts. Downsizing, cost cutting, merging, closing: these catchwords not only dominated the papers' business pages but also became the stories of the newspapers themselves. IF YOU THINK THIS WAS A BAD YEAR, warned a headline in a newspaper trade magazine, BETTER GET USED...