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...Golis ’06 visited countless museums, many of them history museums, and in this way they learned a lot about American history. But it was when they spoke to people who had lived the history that they learned the most. The opportunities to do that were less rare than they might have expected. Easiest was when they stayed with friends and friends’ families—like when they stayed with a friend whose father is a small farmer in South Dakota. But there were other chances...
Chester Douglass, chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), submitted written testimony to the National Research Council last year claiming that there was no significant link between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer...
...days each week the Senate is in session, Obama is almost religiously in Illinois, and his staff brags about the 34 town halls he has held in his home state. Clinton frequently joins Republicans like Rick Santorum, a darling of the religious right, to work on legislation on the rare issues where they agree. (One recent bill provides $90 million to research the effects of video games on the cognitive development of children.) Obama is now working with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the chamber?s most conservative members, to demand that President Bush appoint someone...
Excepting Princeton, the entire Ivy League sailed in the regatta, a rare occurrence as the schools are in different sections. Harvard’s most dangerous competition comes from a few other Ivy League schools in New England—Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale—and from other schools like BC or Hobart/William Smith...
...where there is just a slab. For Republicans in Washington, Katrina recovery means showing they are on top of things, fixing broken government channels and coping with a whopping bill. President Bush plans to go back to the Gulf Coast again this week after spending his weekend on a rare two-night stay on the road to supervise the federal response to Rita. Congress will launch its investigation of the response to Katrina and take up such legislation as aid for petroleum refiners and Medicaid reimbursement for evacuees who have left their states...