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Another patient who moved on Tuesday had only been in the hospital for a day when the journey took place. But in the morning before her unit moved, thirteen-year old Laura McLaughlin, from Manchester, N.H., had an operation to remove a tube from her chest...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Moving Day at Children's Hospital | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

...stone house near his Jerusalem apartment, where he lives with his psychologist wife and three children, he is helped by a devoted, low-paid group of 15 to 18 disciples. On the side, he has written everything from a detective novel to a celebrated work of mystical thought, The Thirteen Petalled Rose. Steinsaltz also presides over two synagogues and two yeshivas and is a popular lecturer and radio speaker. "He is good at everything but raising money," laments one New York City supporter of the Talmud project. "Every time I bring a potential donor, he goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Giving The Talmud to the Jews | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...also disagreed that Salerno's addition to the council will make it more progressive. "Thirteen independently thinking people will vote differently, depending on the particular circumstances. One vote is not necessarily going to prove one way or the other," Bolling said...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: A Shift in Boston City Council | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...Thirteen months after the breakup of the last superpower summit, Gorbachev heads to Washington today for three days of talks with President Reagan and the signing of a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles (INF) over three years...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Summit Begins Today; Visit to Harvard Axed | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Thirteen times during their eight-week stay, a specially outfitted DC-8 took off from the Presidente Ibanez Airport, twelve miles northeast of Punta Arenas. Often the 40-odd scientists and support crew listed for a given flight had to leave the hotel soon after midnight to prepare the plane and its research instruments. Once airborne, the DC-8 would bank south toward Antarctica, 1,000 miles away, fighting vicious winds before settling into a twelve-hour round-trip flight at altitudes of up to 40,000 ft. Along the way, the instruments continuously collected data on atmospheric gases, airborne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heat Is On | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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