Word: ward
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...Ward Eight, Precinct Three, polling station, set up in the lobby of Quincy House, saw a lot of student traffic yesterday—but only from a distance. Few of the students passing through on election day stopped to cast ballots. The eight red-and-blue voting booths remained empty throughout most of the day, leaving the five election officials and one Cambridge police officer there with little to do. The election supervisor there would not provide comment. But, at 11:30 a.m., three-and-a-half hours after the polls had opened, only 27 people had cast ballots...
...Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Kevin Fedarko, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, * Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors) CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul...
...Forest Service Boss Biologist Jack Ward Thomas once headed a scientific team that called for banning timber cutting in some federal forests in the Northwest to protect the spotted owl. Environmentalists were thus delighted when the President named Thomas chief of the U.S. Forest Service, which regulates logging in national forests...
Today that stay is in its 17th year. Her little facility, now known as the Mae Tao clinic, has grown into a complex of buildings that includes operating rooms, a pediatric and maternity ward, a laboratory, a blood bank, an eye-care facility, a 100-bed hospital and a school. Built around a central courtyard, it feels less like a clinic and more like a de facto town-- one that treats up to 400 patients a day, educates 4,000 migrant children and even issues birth certificates and marriage licenses...
DIED. MICHAEL WARD, 80, British surgeon and mountain climber whose expertise in both areas made possible the historic first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953; in West Sussex, England. Although medical duties kept Ward from the summit, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered it using Ward's expertise in high-altitude medicine and, more important, the route he devised to the summit using an archival map he had unearthed in Nepal...