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Does remembering Sannwald, one who was thrust into the violence and hatred of Nazi Germany, constitute that sense of security...
...1950s. She went to private schools but never college. In 1941 she married Allan Arbus, who worked in her father's store. After the war they opened a fashion-photography partnership. In the '50s she studied with Lisette Model, a photographer who knew the power of people thrust forward heavily into the frame. In time Arbus' marriage decayed, but all the while she was creating herself...
After the Florida legislature thrust itself last week into the debate over whether Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die, by authorizing Governor Jeb Bush to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, the acrimonious battle entered a new and possibly protracted round in the courts. But in the court of public opinion, at least, the finger-pointing over what led to Terri's 1990 collapse at age 26 could get nastier. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (who want her kept alive), have suggested that her husband Michael Schiavo (who insists she would not have wanted to live...
Given that speed is a main thrust of the strategy, employing a deeper bench might become a necessity...
...September, students from the Earth and Planetary Sciences department (EPS) jetted out to Calgary for an all-expenses-paid week in the Canadian Rockies. The participants in the trip—over 40 in all—learned how to analyze rock formations and identify thrust faults while getting to do some hands-on work with their EPS professors. “When you’re hiking up a mountain and think you’re not going to make it, you bond,” says Yi-chen Huang ’06, an EPS concentrator. In addition...