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...announcement came barely two weeks after a similar commitment by Gear for Sports, Harvard' s second largest licensee...
Many of Gilroy's residents hope to reach a similar accommodation with their reinvented hospital. The town's five obstetrician-gynecologists sent a letter to the local newspaper asserting that it is "unconscionable, un-Christian, un-Catholic and unwise to deny sterilization services to a community." To be fair, women can travel to another hospital for such services. But the nearest one with comparable facilities is 35 miles away. That's a hardship for a population that is composed largely of poor farmworkers, many of whom have limited transportation. Besides, women like Campos might not have the luxury of time...
Larry Sirinsky's comments concerning Dutch, Edmund Morris' biography of Ronald Reagan, reflect a common confusion about the nature of fact vs. fiction [LETTERS, Oct. 25]. As a bookseller, I face similar misconceptions from the reading public every day. As a student of history, I have long pondered the line between fact and fiction. And as a writer of fiction, I have crossed that line innumerable times. Sirinsky says, "The interweaving of fact and fiction has no place in a biography." That's fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone...
Fortunately for other dinos that walked the earth in about 110 million years B.C., this giant was a vegetarian and probably snacked on pine needles and ferns. It was similar in size and overall shape to the beast most people still think of--despite a highly unpopular renaming a few years ago--as Brontosaurus. The University of Oklahoma paleontologists who found the new species have named it, aptly, Sauroposeidon, after the Greek sea god. Poseidon was also in charge of earthquakes, and it's clear that every step this gargantuan creature took must have been literally seismic...
Canada's 90 universities, all publicly funded, offer degree programs similar to those available at U.S. schools. The University of Toronto, for example, lists 300 separate degree programs. Many institutions also claim renowned or unusual specializations, such as polar studies at Trent; ocean science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, conflict resolution at the University of Winnipeg, and petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta...