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...means going to brain-break together. “Growing up, I expected to get married around 26 or 27 as an ideal age, and to have a lot more of my education, career, and financial security established by then,” says the bride-to-be. In spite of this, O’Herin’s parents, Brian and Julie, who also wed in their early twenties, support their son’s decision. “We are proud of our son and his choice makes us proud,” Mrs. O’Herin...

Author: By Shareen P Asmat, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love in Leverett Leads to Early Engagement | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...This study puts a period on the debate," says Dr. Bill Thies, vice president of medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer's Association. "These results allow the Association to say with some confidence that gingko doesn't work in spite of what anybody trying to sell it says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gingko Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer's | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...spite of the excitement over the Inaugural ball, Hawaii has a bit of a chip on its shoulder. Obama, after all, is a Senator from Illinois, and the incoming President comes off as more a Land of Lincolner than a son of the Aloha State. It's been that way throughout his political career. For example, it took more than a year of watching Obama play poker in "the Committee Meeting" - the nickname that Illinois state senators gave their regular, after-hours poker games - for legislator Denny Jacobs to notice Obama's occasional offhand references to Hawaii's nearly year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hawaii vs. Illinois: Battling over a Favorite Son | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...spite of the fire, Bartley retained the optimism that his father carried with him when he first opened the restaurant in the Square, and by the following month, the restaurant was once again a bustling location for tourists, students, and Cantabrigians...

Author: By Youho T. Myong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bartley's Burger Cottage, Harvard Square Icon, Keeps the Grill Aflame | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...friend of Sinduhije, "strongly believes" that high-level government leaders, including President Nkurunziza and General Adolphe Nshimirimana, head of the country's intelligence service, pressured lower-ranking officials not to release Sinduhije. According to Ngoga-Gateretse, who is based in Maryland, Burundian authorities are holding Sinduhije in spite of international pressure. "The problem is," Ngoga-Gateretse writes in an e-mail, "Nkurunziza does not understand the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burundi Political Activist Jailed | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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