Word: rita
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BORN: Nov. 19, 1942, Brooklyn EDUCATION: Queens College, B.A., 1965 FAMILY: Wife, Rita; three children RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; publisher and editor; advertising executive POLITICAL CAREER: New York Senate, 1979-83; U.S. House, 1983- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 95, Fresh Meadows...
...least accomplished establishing that there is a need for an activist coalition on campus that is diverse," said Rita Rasogi '99, a participant at the meeting...
ORSON WELLES, director, writer, actor and...children's book illustrator? For Christmas 1956, 12-year-old REBECCA WELLES, Orson's daughter by Rita Hayworth, got a picture book about the festival of Les Bravades in St. Tropez, written and illustrated by her dad. "It was a wonderful gift, because I wasn't living with him at the time, and it was so unique and personal," says Rebecca. She sold the book in 1990, "because I thought the world should see it." Bart Rosenblatt and Al Corley (also known as the first Steven Carrington on Dynasty), beat out Martin Scorsese...
Since then, scientists have refocused their attention on nerve-growth factors, first identified in 1951 by Rita Levi-Montalcini of Washington University in St. Louis, who studied neural development in chick embryos. The ngf protein is present in the peripheral nervous system, but cells in the central system do not normally respond to it. Researchers are investigating ways to use ngf and proteins like it to encourage new axonal growth from the spinal cord. ngf injected into the spinal cords of rats revived connections from the spinal cord to the brain, but it remains uncertain whether more or less...
...that child wants to do is coming from within," says David Henry Feldman, a developmental psychologist who is head of the Eliot-Pearson Child Development Department at Tufts University. "You'd almost have to kill that child to keep him or her from doing what he or she wants." Rita May, who brought up her family in Chapel Hill, found herself in that position when her son David was eight. David, who had a beautiful singing voice, auditioned for the North Carolina Boys Choir--without telling his mother. "He was the youngest boy selected that year," says May, who panicked...