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...most popular unsung playwright in America. Raised in a poor and abusive home in New Orleans, he staged his first musical play, I Know I've Been Changed, in a former Atlanta church in 1998. Two years later he introduced his most famous character, the wisecracking, God-fearing granny Mabel (Madea) Simmons - played by Perry in a plus-size print dress and silver wig. Since then he's turned out a steady stream of plays (on which his films are based) that tour the country, playing to African-American audiences on a modern-day version of the "chitlin' circuit...
Officials and administrators at HMS wouldn't deny the charge. HMS spokesman David J. Cameron told The Crimson two nights ago that investigators hadn't eliminated any theory as to how the sodium azide got in the coffee machine, and Mabel P. Duyao, director of research at the Pathology Department, left the door open whether the presence of the chemical was due to malice...
...Mabel P. Duyao, director of research at the HMS Pathology Department, said that sodium azide is used in laboratories—including the 8th floor pathology lab at the New Research Building—to protect solutions from bacteria and other microorganisms...
These symptoms prompted the six to rush to Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (one in an ambulance, according to Mabel P. Duyao, research director in the HMS Pathology Department) on August 26. The Harvard University Police Department is in the process of figuring out how the sodium azide got into the coffee machine, but as of now, what happened is still a mystery...
...year history of food stamps in the U.S. began in May 1939, when unemployed factory worker Mabel McFiggin collected stamps to buy surplus butter, eggs and prunes in Rochester, N.Y. McFiggin was the first person to take advantage of the experimental program, designed to improve on Depression-era commodity-distribution systems developed to aid the needy and unload surplus wheat and other products bought by the government to support farm prices. Food stamps originally came in two colors: recipients bought orange stamps, which could be used for any kind of food, and they were given half that amount in free...