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...School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute began planning the George W. Thorn Building for Medical Research in 1980. Construction on the 16-story medical area structure began in 1983 and was opened in October...
...Carol Thorn, a staff assistant in the special programs office, said she thought the increase in freshmen eligible for advanced standing can be attributed to a heightened awareness of the option and to students increasing tendency to fulfill College requirements with Advanced Placements tests...
...family that works alternately survives permanently. At least that is the domestic credo of Rachel Ward, 27, and Bryan Brown, 37, who met three years ago while filming The Thorn Birds for TV and ended up turning their onscreen marriage into the real thing. When Rosie made three, nine months ago, the English actress and Australian actor began scheduling their professional work in relays. Ward just finished filming Fortress, an Australian survivalist epic for HBO in which she plays a school marm who is kidnaped and imprisoned along with nine of her charges. "It's Picnic at Hanging Rock meets...
Author Colleen McCullough's fourth novel began selling briskly weeks before its official publication. The easy explanation is that the vast audience that enjoyed The Thorn Birds (1977) will buy anything McCullough writes. But something else may be fueling this phenomenon. The appearance of perfection in any form is a rare and noteworthy event. News of its arrival is bound to spread, and perhaps, in this case, the word is already out: A Creed for the Third Millennium could well be the most perfectly awful novel ever published...
Just two years ago, by contrast, ABC's The Winds of War swept the nation with an average 38.6 rating over its seven nights. A month later, The Thorn Birds, also on ABC, surpassed that score with a whopping 41.9. Enticed by these colossal numbers, all three networks began developing mini-series at a rate unseen since the heady days following the ground-breaking 1977 telecast of Roots (at 45.0, still the all-time ratings champ). Such "long form" dramas, however, need out-of-the-ordinary ratings to justify their hefty production costs (a reported $32 million for Space...