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Sensing that her background in biology was lacking, Hanley enrolled in "Introduction to Immunology", a course taught by Gerald B. Pier, an assistant professor at the Medical School...
...Pier's course is perennially one of the most popular courses offered. This year it ranked second with an enrollment of 146 students, just behind "Financial Accounting" with 206 students. The success of the course is due to the broad-based appeal of immunology in the medical sciences, Pier says...
Down on the Freeport town wharf, a fisherman maneuvers through the fog beside the fish dealer's pier, his boat heaped with mussels. Three men in camouflage and carrying shotguns get into an aluminum boat and head out in the rain to where the ducks are. But up on Main Street, a different scene unfolds. At L.L. Bean, a woman fusses over a $65 goose-down pillow, then says to her husband, "I spend half my life in bed, I might as well have a comfortable pillow." Across from Bean's, at Cole Haan, beautiful shoes are on sale...
Here the protagonist is an anonymous young writer hacking out Bradburyesque stories for the pulps. The time is 1949, the place is Venice, and in the distance the pier is "falling apart and dying in the sea and you could find there the bones of a vast dinosaur, the roller coaster, being covered by the shifting tides...
Byrne, who was mayor from 1979 to 1983, said that if reelected she would revive efforts to build a new downtown pier complex similar to Boston's Quincy Market or New York's South Street Seaport...