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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Dana Ullman's younger sister developed a nagging pain in her abdomen, their father, a pediatrician, couldn't find the cause or a cure. Neither could the five specialists who were called in on her case. Then Dana, a practitioner and leading proselytizer of homeopathy, stepped in. He prescribed a dose of calcium carbonate; two weeks later, his sister's pain had disappeared. Now whenever illness strikes, the Ullman family turns first to Dana's type of medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS HOMEOPATHY GOOD MEDICINE? | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Tracey Bohannon '99 said both she and her sister, who attends Duke University, receive federal...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Senate Committee Considers Paring Federal Student Loans | 9/22/1995 | See Source »

Best of all, apparently, she liked Marcel Duchamp, artist and gigolo to the rich, who appears to have had a role in the sentimental education of her sister Ettie. (Since Ettie cut many pages from Florine's diaries after her death, one cannot be sure.) Florine's portrait of Duchamp in an armchair, turning a slender crank that raises his invented feminine alter ego Rrose Selavy into the air, is one of the most stylish tributes offered by one American artist to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: CAMPING UNDER GLASS | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...expertise, turned Barnes and Noble Bookstores Inc., the sister company of the publicly-traded Barnes and Noble...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer and Sarah E. Scrogin, S | Title: Has the Coop Met Its Match? | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

Morris said most of the Keats collection came to Harvard through the generosity of two collectors--President A. Lawrence Lowell's sister Amy, who wrote a biography of Keats and who bequeathed her collection to Harvard in 1925, and Arthur A. Houghton Jr., after whom the library was named, who gave his collection over a number of years between...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Houghton Hosts Keats Conference | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

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