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Within the scientific community, siblings have not been wholly ignored, but research has been limited mostly to discussions of birth order. Older sibs were said to be strivers; younger ones rebels; middle kids the lost souls. The stereotypes were broad, if not entirely untrue, and there the discussion mostly ended...
...itself, the death of Michael Russell of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, who was vacationing at Disney with his parents and younger brother, would have been simply a tragic loss for a grieving family and friends. But this was the third time in little more than a year that a Disney guest has died after riding one of the resort's signature attractions, including Mission: SPACE. All three victims were found in autopsies to have suffered from either undiagnosed heart defects or pre-existing life-threatening conditions that could have been exacerbated by the stress of the ride. "It's happening...
...Opposed to him we find a Machiavellian younger professor, Dr. Irwin, hired by the administration to get the students into the elite institutions. Irwin seeks to avoid clichés and trite essays, emphasizing that the “old ways” produce only “dull” essays. History (and academia, for that matter) is nowadays “entertainment,” where “facts are just the beginning,” according to Irwin...
Hong Kong has seen the opening of two extravagant hotel spas - at the Four Seasons and the Landmark Mandarin Oriental - in less than a year, but the grande dame of the city's hotels, the 78-year-old Peninsula, can hardly be expected to allow younger rivals to have the last word. Its $6 million response, the newly unveiled Peninsula Spa, sprawls across two floors and has been put together[an error occurred while processing this directive] by ESPA, the pace-setting consultancy behind award-winning wellness facilities at the Bulgari Hotel in Milan, Barbados' Sandy Lane resort and many...
...unusually familiar with naval history. Two of his uncles, brothers of his Southern-born mother, had been involved in the Confederate navy in the Civil War. (One of them, James D. Bulloch, was a Confederate naval agent who commissioned the C.S.S. Alabama, the famous commerce raider on which his younger brother Irvine served.) The young Theodore had grown up with stories about earlier naval battles and eagerly read works on the history of war. Yet it would be fair to say that his notions about sea power--build bigger warships, concentrate the fleet--were primitive until the late 1880s, when...