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...rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis and disappointed by the young man who was the cause of it all. "He can sing," she told her sister afterward, "but he can't do much else...
Performers Thursday were the Jazz Prophets: Jared L. Tardy '96, Justin B. Wood '98, John A. Capello '96 and Chris D. Dubois...
...process begins with an examination of follicles, the tiny sacs in the ovary where eggs are found. Fertility doctors ordinarily focus on large follicles -- nearly a half-inch wide -- that contain mature eggs. But Trounson's partner, Dr. Carl Wood, discovered that the latest ultrasound machines could spot follicles that are less than a tenth of an inch wide and hold immature eggs. Wood developed a way to pluck the young eggs out of the smaller follicles with a specially designed needle. Trounson, after experiments with cattle, devised a cell-culturing procedure that ripens the immature eggs in the laboratory...
...thousands of brand new voters," said Thomas C. Cangiamila, an office assistant at the Election Commission. "People who never voted before were coming out of the wood-work...
Lidia (Lexi Randall) and her younger brother Stu (Elijah Wood) have it rough. Mom (Mare Winningham) has to be the family glue, because Dad (Kevin Costner) has returned from Vietnam damaged and crushed. By most standards, he is a failure, so he pours his ambitions into his kids, who think he's a saint. "Maybe he died in that war," one of them says, "and God sent him back to us for one last visit." If so, it is to supervise, by remote control, a replay of his and America's Vietnam trauma...