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...surprised to run into her son one day at Columbia, where she was getting her art degree. "He was secretly going to premed classes without telling us," she says, with a reminiscent smile. Dean was nervous when his parents found out. He describes his father as "a strict disciplinarian," and he was sure the old man would think leaving finance for medical school "was crazy. But he never said one word about it. I would have done it anyway, but it just would have been harder ... In some ways that was the best thing he ever...
...still obdurately refuse to reverse course. "Instead of planting the oak and ash, mayors plant quick-growing pines so they can point to the new forest before their terms run out," Thinon says. "Then we get more fires." France passed a law in 1995 demanding that local authorities take strict fire-prevention measures, but in the hardest-hit Var region not a single such program is yet in place. Mayors say they don't have the money to clear the underbrush that accelerates the fires, nor do they widely enforce provisions aimed at preventing developers from cashing in on fire...
...when it made Dinner Doctors on Britain's Channel 5. The campaign built around the cooking show, including a website and supermarket promotions, cost about $3 million and "was a better way to optimize our spend than traditional advertising," says Heinz spokesman Michael Mullen. In line with Britain's strict advertising rules, Heinz had no input or product placement, but was named as the show's sponsor. "This is about creating a high level of quality. The only risk would be if the consumer felt he's being fed a commercial," says Anna Prosser of Spring London, the agency that...
...pack of Democratic presidential hopefuls. But, said Green Kevin McKeown, mayor pro-tem of Santa Monica, "waiting for the Democratic Party to nominate Dennis Kucinich is like worrying about what brand of ice skates to buy in case hell freezes over." Also weighing on the decision are strict ballot rules in some states that would preclude the Greens from putting up candidates for local races if they don't offer a presidential candidate...
Hornstine wrote she now understands that she “was incorrect in…thinking that news articles didn’t require as strict citation scrutiny as most school assignments because there was no place for footnotes or end notes...