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...fold among some Belarussian children. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now giving states the option of stocking up on potassium iodide for communities near the nation's 103 nuclear power plants. Still, the NRC emphasizes that the drug is not the next Cipro. Says NRC spokesman William Beecher: "It can protect only one part of the body against one radioactive element...
...Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, reached the hearts of Americans. Her many readers—it was the best-selling novel in history at the time—wanted to take action against slavery. But they could not break free from the constraints of the churches, political parties and laws that supported slavery. Stowe pessimistically concluded in her later years that “from the great institutions in society, no help whatever is to be expected...
...Year's vacation in London did not begin well for Loretta Cosman and Marcy Phalen of Beecher, Ill. A rare snowstorm greeted the sisters on their first night, and a visit to Oxford the next day had to be scrubbed when their tour bus got stuck in traffic for three hours. By the time they got to Stratford-upon-Avon, it was too dark to see. So at the urging of others, the pair decided to take a guided walking tour of Westminster and London's West...
...DAVID I.L. BEECHER...
Said David I. L. Beecher '00, "I chose [Bradley] over Gore because he's not in the pocket of as many industries...