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...According to a spokesperson for the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Maine, where the Chief Justice was taken after his seizure caused him to fall onto a dock at his summer home, Roberts was fully recovered and did not seem to show any lasting effects from the brain episode. His seizure, as well as an earlier episode that occurred 14 years ago, were described as being "benign idiopathic," meaning that their cause is unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Justice Roberts Have Epilepsy? | 7/31/2007 | See Source »

Durrett, Lansing and Sockbeson are all Native Americans--from the Lakota, Navajo and Penobscot Nations respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Fest Honors Native Americans | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

Head TF Darren Ranco, a member of the Penobscot tribe and a fourth-year graduate student in social anthropology, says that the topic of the class can only be taught with an interdisciplinary approach...

Author: By Michael T. Jalkut, | Title: Students Study Native Americans Through Interdisciplinary Focus | 10/23/1996 | See Source »

...than as an orator. Time Present, Time Past is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues. It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers: he has to add a litany of nine, from the Ohio to the Penobscot. Most Angelenos of Mexican heritage, he notes, are laborers--documenting the obvious by reeling off 14 trades in which they are employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HE SHOOTS, HE DOESN'T SCORE | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...more convincing a writer. "The book is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues," Elson says. "It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers: he has to add a litany of nine, from the Ohio to the Penobscot. Time and again he offers trenchantly observed summaries of an American social problem--failing schools, for example, or popular fears of violent crime--that trail off into unhelpful cliches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . TIME PRESENT, TIME PAST | 1/19/1996 | See Source »

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