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...doctors don't always recognize the disorder. "I just had a patient in my office who was known to have a 100% iron-saturation level for years," but his physicians didn't do anything about it, says Dr. Geoffrey Block, director of the Hemochromatosis Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "There's still a perception that if the iron levels aren't low, you don't need to worry...
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Working from a core of about 800 demonstrations, the team can do pretty much anything a professor asks for, says Peter Siska, visiting Professor from the University of Pittsburgh, who teaches Chemistry 5, "Introduction to Principles of Chemistry," this semester...
...first breakthrough came when he landed a job as secretary and telegrapher to Tom Scott, a powerful overlord of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At 23 Carnegie headed Pennsy's Pittsburgh division and began to rake in a small fortune from outside investments ranging from oil to iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed...
...publishing. If ever there was a happy hunting ground for eccentrics, publishing is it. The industry produced more rare blooms than any other, ranging from Joseph Pulitzer (1874-1911), publisher of the New York World, to the very much alive Richard Mellon Scaife, 66, publisher of Pittsburgh's Tribune Review. Pulitzer suffered from nervousness so acute that he lived out his later years in double-insulated, soundproof rooms. As for Scaife, he spent some of his Mellon family megabucks (Alcoa, Mellon Bank) to buy a suburban newspaper, give it a Steel City moniker and publish an unending string of kooky...