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...rule of 75"--which stipulates that an employee's age plus service must equal 75--for retiree medical eligibility. He said that while most of the staff would leave the University by the end of June, some may remain for a few extra months in order to ensure a smooth transition.FAS Dean Michael D. Smith had announced in April that 153 out of 521 eligible staff in his school accepted the buyout packages--a slight discrepancy from the most recent figures possibly caused by the delayed delivery of packages, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake. But in light...
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...part because of their migraines rather than in spite of them. He entertains the idea that migraines "make the clear moments that much clearer, the dark moments that much more unreachable." There is a quasi-Buddhist discipline to enduring them, and they leave in their wake a mind worn smooth and bright by their passage. In 1910, Virginia Woolf, sensing a headache coming on, prepped herself for inspiration. "I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe," she wrote in a letter to her sister. "It will be exquisite by September...
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Qantas Flight 72 had been airborne for three hours, flying uneventfully on autopilot from Singapore to Perth, Australia. But as the in-flight dinner service wrapped up, the aircraft's flight-control computer went crazy. The plane abruptly entered a smooth 650-ft. dive (which the crew sensed was not being caused by turbulence) that sent dozens of people smashing into the airplane's luggage bins and ceiling. More than 100 of the 300 people on board were hurt, with broken bones, neck and spinal injuries, and severe lacerations splattering blood throughout the cabin. (Read...