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Yuriko Koike A prot??gé of popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Koike is touted for her foreign policy expertise and has served as both Environment Minister and Defense Minister...
...young dancer's career when he cast her in a 1931 performance of the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld. Baronova went on to perform in ballets such as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but she is best known for touring the world with two other young Balanchine prot??gés. The trio, known as the "Baby Ballerinas," was hugely popular in the 1930s. Baronova...
Before long, millions of people did. It debuted on April 4 in London's Trafalgar Square, the assembly point for the four-day march. Over the next few days, it appeared in countless newspaper photos and TV reports. Bayard Rustin, an American prot??gé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who took part in the march, brought the symbol home to a growing civil rights movement dedicated to nonviolence. When the Vietnam War started getting out of hand, protesters discovered they had a ready-made icon to signal their feelings...
...purple states in 2008: New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon; some of them are trailing in polls. Senator Ted Stevens' corruption woes in Alaska may force Republicans to defend that once lock-safe seat. And Democrats have even vowed to go after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, whose prot??gé just lost the Kentucky Governor's mansion to a Democratic insurgent. But if resignations are weakening the party, the party's weakness is also encouraging more resignations: it's just less fun when your team isn't winning, so more GOP-ers are opting...
...that. SPD is not listed in medical texts or in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM), the bible of psychiatric disorders. Doctors acknowledge sensory issues as a common feature of autism and a frequent feature of ADHD but not as a stand-alone disorder. Lucy Jane Miller, a former prot??gé of Ayres and head of the STAR Center, is spearheading a campaign to change that. She has organized a national effort to have SPD added to the next edition of the DSM, the fifth, due out in 2012. Earning a spot in the DSM V would make it easier...