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...drawing up awards. Last year the university honored the Israeli ambassador, Simcha Dinitz. So this year the nod went to Ashraf Ghorbal, 54, Cairo's Ambassador to Washington. Ghorbal was hailed by Georgetown as "a genuine member of the international cathedral of ideas." The ambassador, who stands a slight 5 ft. 3 in., was diplomatically not paired in the academic procession with fellow doctor of humane letters and former Boston Celtics Player-Coach Bill Russell, who towers...
...also sell door to door. Regular distributors are urged to become direct distributors themselves, and they do so by recruiting, training and supervising new salespeople. Though the direct distributor is not paid for signing up these recruits, he does make additional money by selling Amway products at a slight mark up to the distributors under him. To keep sales expanding, the new distributors are then encouraged to sign up recruits of their...
...heavyweight varsity eight pulled up to the dock after Sunday's 5:15 p.m. final, Harry Parker was standing silently, his yellow rain slicker wrapped carelessly about one arm. The concrete countenance, which carried with it power and dignity, revealed a slight grimmace that accentuated the signs of strain in Parker's weathered skin. The Schoenbrod shell glided to a halt as Parker grabbed one of the oars and pulled the boat closer to the dock...
...rare, inherited blood disorder affects males primarily, and afflicts some 25,000 Americans. Because most hemophiliacs lack a blood-clotting substance known as factor VIII, they may bleed uncontrollably after slight injuries or from such ordinary events as losing baby teeth. Frequently there is bleeding into joints, leading sometimes to crippling. Today many hemophiliacs are successfully treated with injections of factor VIII, but that is therapy, not a cure. It is also expensive-$6,000 to $26,000 a year. For many couples with a family history of hemophilia, the prospect of raising a child with the disease is more...
...however, results in a sudden drop to (a) on the surface below, once the point crossed the edge of the fold at (d). This dramatic plunge is a catastrophe and signifies a discontinuous "jump" in behavior from one stable state to another through an unstable intermediary state, A slight decrease in factor 2 from (e) yields an abrupt ascent to (c) in the same manner...