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Duke University Medical Center is one of the crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just...
Clemens completed the Triple Crown of pitching--leading the league in wins, ERA, and strikeouts--for the second straight year. He didn't lose after May 29. That means he didn't lose in June. Or July. Or August. Or September. Along the way, he went 20-6 with a 2.65 ERA and 271 Ks. He sure doesn't throw like a 36-year...
...when he passed Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record at 2,130. The next year, the New York Yankees again saved the game from imminent demise, pulling together a scrappy and inspirational team of rookies, recovering drug addicts and itinerant veterans to claim the World Series crown, with the illness of Yankee manager Joe Torre's brother Frank providing a dramatic subplot. I have no doubt that the next underdog to win a World Series, the next player to break some hallowed mark, will be duly hailed as the game's newest savior...
Prince Edward's Crown and Country, a TV series on things great and British, debuts this week on PBS. We noticed the prince has a few things in common with another independent filmmaker...
EDWARD --Sometimes wears ermine --Joined the Royal Marines at 22 --Could be a King, but probably won't --Produced, wrote and stars in Crown and Country --Ditto