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...President walks a rope line is a given. But agents have also had to respond to unique security challenges--from rigging traffic lights while Truman strolled through Washington to shielding President Jimmy Carter's daughter, Amy, from a charging elephant at a pet show on Ethel Kennedy's Virginia estate. While the demeanor (sunglasses, earpieces, constant vigilance) and the danger are what captivate the public, monitoring for fiscal malfeasance is still half the job. In August, the Secret Service helped crack what was heralded as the largest identity-theft ring in U.S. history...
Unlike other universities with long-standing polo traditions like Cornell and the University of Virginia, Harvard faces several key disadvantages, including a practice space that is at least 40 minutes away from campus and a stable of only 14 horses, sufficient to host home games, but incomparable to Cornell’s collection of 30 ponies...
...while she didn’t always have “an incredibly strong sense” of what profession she would pursue after college, academia “was always one of the options.” Following her post-doc work, Jasanoff taught at the University of Virginia. She applied for a tenure track position at Harvard in 2006. Jasanoff’s parents are also on the Harvard faculty.Although most Harvard professors may seem as old as Harvard itself, some departments feature recent Harvard graduates, like Jasanoff, who return to Harvard to teach after relatively short hiatuses...
Reporting Nov. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Steven DeKosky, dean of the school of medicine at University of Virginia, found that taking 120 mg of gingko biloba twice a day did not prevent the development of dementia in a group of 1,545 seniors 75 years and older; there was no difference in rates of dementia among the intervention group and a similar group of 1,524 participants who took identical placebos. This was the largest and longest investigation into the effects of gingko biloba, and the first study to explore whether a supplement could...
...King Jr. mesmerized a Memphis, Tenn., congregation with an address in which he said, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land" [Nov. 17]. On election night we watched as Americans from Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President not on the basis of the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Alan B. Posner, ROYAL OAK, MICH...