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...DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, once America's perkiest, most popular female teen idol, who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms nationwide when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, California. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts, but showed a more serious side in films like Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
DIED. SANDRA DEE, 62, perky Hollywood teen idol who caused squeals in teenage bedrooms everywhere when she married pop singer Bobby Darin; of complications from kidney disease; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played the innocent tomboy surfer in the 1959 film Gidget, a signature role that led to a string of similar parts. But she showed a more serious side in films such as Imitation of Life and A Summer Place. She gradually disappeared from Hollywood, battling anorexia and drinking problems, after her turbulent marriage to Darin ended...
Abrahams and Benefield face something of an uphill battle. Attendance at the museums has remained somewhat steady over the past five years. Though the annual attendance has increased by roughly three thousand visitors since 1999, the proportion of those visitors who are students has declined. In 1999, the percentage of total visitors who identified themselves as Harvard students was roughly 18 percent, while students made up only 15 percent of last year’s visitors...
...fast-tracked drugs were supposed to be carefully monitored by their manufacturers after release to the public for any unexpected side effects. It was a compromise that made sense because problems are more likely to surface when millions of patients are taking a drug as opposed to the few thousand in a clinical trial. Over the years, however, as the drug-approval part of the arrangement grew, manufacturers became increasingly reluctant to undertake expensive postapproval safety studies...
Whether coursepack costs become manageable is in the hands of professors. We can only shudder at the possibility of being asked to shell out a thousand dollars for a five thousand page monstrosity some day, and the armies of petty copyright thieves such an action will create...