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...hobo camp Freddie meets Sam, AKA "The King of Spain," an older drifter with several past lives. He's a bit of a cut-up, this self-proclaimed monarch of the boxcars, and he brings out Freddie's nascent personality. Their relationship forms the heart of Kings in Disguise, turning the book into an unusual buddies-on-the-road story. Over the course of the story Vance keeps the relationship finely tuned by changing its nature from the beginning - Freddie needs a mentor and Sam needs a purpose in his life - through the end, as Sam becomes increasingly ill from...
...system for osteoporotic bone, what McKay Professor of Engineering Robert D. Howe calls “an amazingly original idea.” This device would be used in patients who undergo spinal fusion, the most common surgical remedy for back pain, according to Simmons’ abstract. Because older patients often suffer from low bone density, the expanding screw would go into the vertebral body, creating a system with a greater holding capacity, she wrote in her abstract. Everett, who also placed second, collaborated with knee-injury specialists to improve testing for tendon graft orientation in injured knees...
...portrait that the album establishes. There are missteps, as on the lyrically bizarre “If,” but these occasional blemishes can’t mar the beauty of the album’s grander, more moving songs—ironically, those tracks most indebted to older music. For example, the slow-burning opener, “Swans (Life After Death),” follows the same sonic arc as Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” as a subdued introduction simmers to a major key climax before burning...
...junior year at Pottsville Area High School in central Pennsylvania’s coal country, Steve Pilconis made all the right moves. The star wide receiver sent videotape of his games to football programs across the country. He waited patiently as programs returned interest. He watched as his older brother, Ryan, was recruited to play football at Harvard. But most of all, Pilconis let his junior season statistics speak for themselves: 27 catches, 704 yards, eight touchdowns...
Kevin Keating, the Pilconis’s high school coach, says he believes that having an older brother on the team will improve not only Steve’s work ethic, but also his overall experience at Harvard...