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What's the appeal of being a deejay? For one, the occupation can stroke your ego. "To see everyone having a good time, to get a reaction from them, that's the thing I like," says Sean Williams, 29, who lost his postal service job in July and now deejays in the Bay Area (stage name: DJ Padd). "You can control everyone.' You can also pick up the basics in a month or two, and schools aren't ridiculously expensive: Rankin, for example, charges $600 for a month-long class in Chicago. A five-month intensive course at New York...
...Huntington’s work also took him beyond academia. In 1968, he advised then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his bid for the presidency. In 1977 and 1978, Huntington served as coordinator of security planning for the National Security Council under President Jimmy Carter. After suffering from a stroke in 2006, Huntington entered a succession of nursing facilities in Boston. He relocated the following summer to a facility on Martha’s Vineyard. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...collected to measure toxins, hormone levels, or genes. These observations over time allow for an in depth understanding of the reasons for health and risks for disease. A great advantage of cohort studies is that they enable scientists to study multiple diseases (for example heart diseases, cancer, stroke) and multiple risk factors (diet, exercise, air quality) over an individual’s lifetime...
Since last autumn, when Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke, the question of succession in North Korea has become paramount. Though Kim, according to intelligence reports, has resumed most of his duties, his own obvious frailty led even him, analysts believe, to begin preparing for the inevitable. Since becoming ill, as TIME revealed last month, Pyongyang has effectively been run by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law, Chang Sung Taek, who is married to the dictator's younger sister, the sibling Kim is reportedly closest to. (The fluid, unpredictable nature of politics around the ruler can never be underestimated...
...shot into the goal to force overtime. Although Harvard survived the first overtime, it fell in the second extra period, 3-2. The Crimson experienced the emotional high point of the season in its next game against Yale. In a scoreless contest, freshman midfielder Carly Dickson earned a penalty stroke with ten minutes remaining. She lifted a shot into the top right corner, her first collegiate goal, to propel Harvard to a 1-0 victory. The Crimson dropped its next two games before entering its best stretch of the season. Against Vermont, Brown, Northeastern, and Saint Louis, Harvard rolled...