Word: washing
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Elion, 70, a New York City native, and Hitchings, 83, born in Hoquiam, Wash., are affiliated with Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park...
Often, EPISO's workers encounter cold stares and slammed doors. Ceasar encourages them to return. "Once people understand they can change things," she explains, "the apathy starts to wash away." Hundreds of one-on-one meetings hasten action. Key volunteers work the neighborhoods on weekends, always heeding IAF's golden rule: "Don't do for others what they can do for themselves...
...even the Johnson controversy could not wash away the glory the Games traditionally hold. American Greg Louganis smashed his head on the board in the preliminaries of spingboard diving. Injured, he won the gold medal...
...Wash U is a good school, and there are probably several areas in which it compares favorably to Harvard. But faculty quality? Are we expected to believe that Harvard can't attract faculty members with the academic caliber of those in St. Louis...
Maybe the magazine noticed that Harvard is heisting an increasing number of visiting scholars and junior faculty from Wash U. Still, why would that school persist in calling itself the Harvard of the Midwest...