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...station with no ride home." Now, as the resident ham-radio operator and mayor of his "neighborhood," or hall, Stasco says, "there's no time to feel bad." That goes for physical health as well. Jessie Walters, 79, a resident of the Oaks at Forsyth in Winston-Salem, N.C., recalls a grim prognosis from doctors after she had a massive heart attack earlier this year. "But I stayed in the hospital for only about a week!" says Walters. Why? "I wanted to get back to taking care of Cutie, my parakeet." She adds, "He needs...
...appointed president of Willamette University in Salem, Ore., last year and promptly appointed a diversity task force and proposed exchange programs with historically black colleges...
Long used by law-enforcement and government agencies to examine threats made against their personnel, Mosaic software is now being field-tested in about 20 public school districts from Jonesboro, Ark., to Los Angeles to Salem, Ore. In its assessment of the stick-figure artist, the program suggested that the boy shared several traits with past violent offenders and guided the school to put him in counseling and under close watch. "When those kids walked into Columbine with bombs, no one was expecting it," says Underwood. "We're now on alert if this child comes into school with a bulge...
...senses Swenson's fate almost from his first meeting with Angela; not only does Prose repeatedly refer to the 1930 film Blue Angel, which features the debasement of an infatuated professor, but she has also constructed her collegiate climate as a latter-day Salem, tyrannized by the puritanical forces of sexual-harassment policies that demand some sacrifice. However, by presenting neither character as an obvious victim or villain, the novel maintains a level of suspense, momentum and humor. And though the hypocrisy of the political-correctness movement has been amply explored elsewhere, Prose still manages to find fresh ways...
Scientists presented their latest misgivings about estrogen's coronary benefits at last week's meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Anaheim, Calif. In a preliminary analysis of a study of 309 women with heart disease, Dr. David Herrington of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., and his colleagues reported that estrogen, taken by itself or in combination with the drug progestin, had no effect for better or worse on the atherosclerotic plaques in the women's coronary arteries. Their conclusion echoes that of another study of female heart patients, published 18 months ago, that...