Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the dress rehearsal, but so far nothing seems ready. The scene is unclothed, the lights are out, the curtains malcoordinated. And yet as the tensed wrist of the harpsichordist travels across the tuning pegs, as the organ's pitch is finally affixed, as each musician is gathered into place, one senses that the real setting of this opera is here fully assembled...
...artist has always been to look at areas that are right in front of us that no one wants to look at," says Ensler, 46, who began interviewing women for The Vagina Monologues after she was "shocked" at the way a friend talked disparagingly about her own sex organ. The work has become the centerpiece of an annual effort on Valentine's Day to raise money to fight violence against women. "You know when your life mission shows up and you can no longer avoid it," she says. "I suddenly realized I had to do something major...
...Crimson made the bold and expensive decision to distribute the paper free to all undergraduates. In prior years, the paper was door-dropped daily to all students with paid subscriptions. By attempting to freely distribute the paper for the past three years, The Crimson has truly become the prime organ of information dissemination at Harvard. And The Crimson is still unique among campus newspapers in this respect...
...liver or heart transplant in Maryland than it is in Kansas? Maybe not, but you?d probably get that impression from a new Health and Human Services report. The study charts the rates of death while waiting for a transplant, the chances of getting a new organ and the percentage of successful procedures associated with heart and liver transplants in 100 medical centers across the country. The numbers, picked up ahead of time by the Associated Press, are being released Thursday but are causing an early stir in the medical establishment. According to the report, there are some hospitals ? such...
Does this mean that patients in Maryland should gather up their IVs and run screaming to the prairies? Not at all, says Bob Speildenner, spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing. "Patients should not panic. They should talk to the doctors at the hospital about their concerns, about the numbers in the study." This data, Speildenner emphasizes, is several years old, and the results are still very much open to interpretation. "When these numbers are analyzed, they?ll be much more valuable to everyone." At that point, discrepancies will be explained, or at least fleshed out. Already, experts...