Word: reede
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...phone with me literally every day in the hospital," Biden said. "I'd turn around and there would be some specialist from Massachusetts, a doc I never even asked for, literally sitting in the room with me." Kennedy spent a lot of time at Walter Reed hospital, with wounded soldiers. He gave a dying Senate reporter a watercolor he'd painted for her nursing home wall. He called every family of the 78 Massachusetts residents who died on September 11, to say "I'm sorry, and I'm here if you need me." He opened his Boston home to colleagues...
...Reed, who worked for Jack Kemp and the Republican National Committee before running Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign, is a consultant in Washington. He offered TIME this reminiscence...
...Some research has found that the obese already "exercise" more than most of the rest of us. In May, Dr. Arn Eliasson of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center reported the results of a small study that found that overweight people actually expend significantly more calories every day than people of normal weight - 3,064 vs. 2,080. He isn't the first researcher to reach this conclusion. As science writer Gary Taubes noted in his 2007 book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health, "The obese tend to expend more energy than...
Duncan, as the nation's educator in chief, has repeatedly plugged a longer school day and year. He views today's standard six-hour, 180-day calendar as way too old school, a holdover from not only 19th century agrarian society but also mid-20th century Donna Reed-style parenting. "Our children are no longer working in the fields," Duncan says. "And Mom isn't waiting at home at 2:30 with a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich. That just doesn't happen in many American families anymore." (Read an interview with Duncan...
...appeared onstage last summer, one central narrative was whether she could possibly juggle her complex personal and public lives. By now we're used to seeing stories about professional women who conclude that "having it all" is a myth and leave the arena in search of their inner Donna Reed. This "trend" is used to explain the paradox that women now make up a majority of college grads and have roughly matched men in law and business and medical schools but are still paid less and remain dramatically underrepresented in executive suites, not to mention statehouses and the White House...