Word: sanger
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...than 2,500 years, and have been made from materials as varied as opium, gold and ivory. Dr. Friedrich Wilde, a German gynecologist, developed the modern rubber version in 1838, and it quickly gained widespread popularity in Europe. In the U.S., however, it never caught on, mainly because Margaret Sanger, a pioneer in family planning in the 1900s, favored the diaphragm...
...happy result would bring credit and profit to the government in power, so one morning Harare and his men take Mallory down to the former lakefront to shoot him. The doctor is saved by the arrival of a plane bearing Captain Kagwa, the provincial police chief, and Professor Sanger, a maker of television documentaries...
...Sanger has come to publicize himself giving rice to the starving natives. Mallory replies, "One problem is that the people here don't eat rice . . . The second is that there aren't any people." Sanger, whose career is on the skids, responds glumly, "Even my disaster area is a disaster." Then something amazing occurs. A tractor under Mallory's direction tips over the huge stump of an old oak tree, and water begins to bubble up from the cavity below. First a trickle, then a stream. Soon a broad brown current several hundred yards wide spreads itself north and south...
News Editor for this Issue: Shri Rudavsky '88 Night Editors: Shari Rudavsky '88 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Copy Editor: Vicky Sanger '87-88 Photo Editor: Anh T. Nguyen '90 Features Editor: Anh T. Nguyen '90 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Jennifer M. Frey '90 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Business Editor: Robert Q. McManus...
...happened. The New York Times staff received a prize for national reporting for coverage of the aftermath of the shuttle disaster. Seven reporters were cited, and two of us in graphics were recongnized by the editors at The Times as being among those who contributed to the award. David Sanger was one of the real winners, and he's even a real Harvard alum. But you gave me some wonderful delusions of grandeur. Nancy Lee Nieman Fellow...