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...look like refugees from a '60s commune. Pals since they were in high school in Merrick, N.Y., Cohen and Greenfield decided in 1977 that making ice cream would be more fun than what they were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then a lab technician in North Carolina, and Cohen was a pottery teacher at a school in New York. After taking a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making from Penn State, the two set up shop in Burlington and gradually began to peddle their product to restaurants and stores in the area. Their chief...
...reforms, which were proposed by a multiracial parliamentary committee, and should be passed by Parliament before the end of June, were greeted by many blacks with great relief. When Hubert Rietbauer, a 39-year-old Austrian-born mining technician, and Lettie Baloyi, the black woman he has lived with for eight years, appeared in a Transvaal regional court last Friday charged with sex law violations, the hearing lasted no more than a minute. Suddenly, after an ordeal that had spanned five court appearances and three days in jail, the couple was acquitted. "This is a great day," Rietbauer said...
...away either frightened by something you think you saw or, worse, reassured that things are fine when in fact there's something wrong," says Riley. Many an obstetrician has seen patients who have spent sleepless nights worrying after being told--incorrectly--by a keepsake-ultrasound technician that their baby may have a major defect...
...Force has about 110 active-duty ccatt teams, many of which have logged tens of thousands of kilometers shuttling between Baghdad and Landstuhl. The aircraft are fitted with the same kind of sophisticated medical equipment that would be found in any high-tech ICU, and a doctor, nurse and technician are aboard each flight. Holcomb says the greatest medical achievement in the Iraq war has been how fast injured soldiers are moved to safety. "The rapid evacuation of casualties is stunning," he says. At first glance, Landstuhl doesn't seem like it could play a key role...
Fourth, Summers said the University should provide “an extra little bit of assistance” to scientists with young children—in the form of a technician or a research aide—so that faculty members can spend less time in the laboratory and more time with their families...