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Ronald Reagan
By Karen Judson
CIA director William Casey had served as Reagan's campaign director and was also close to the President . Later it appeared that Casey had a free hand to run secret operations . Treasury Secretary Donald Regan was also a powerful member ...
Suicide: Tragic Choice
By Karen Zeinert
... Suicide ( New York : Chelsea House Publishers , 1992 ) , p . 16 . 3. Scanlan , p . 53 . 4. Dolce , p . 16 . 5. Bernard Frankel and Rachel Kranz , Straight Talk About Teenage Suicide ( New York : Facts On File , 1994 ) , pp . 83–84 .
The Race for the North Pole and Robert Peary in World History
By Karen Clemens Warrick
From there , Hall sailed through Smith Sound , Kane Basin , Kennedy Channel , and into an unexplored part of the channel now known as Hall Basin . On August 30 , 1871 , the Polaris and its crew reached the latitude 82 degrees ...
American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
By Claire L. Datnow
At the start of the twentieth century , American writers like L. Frank Baum and Edgar Rice Burroughs brought science fiction to the attention of an even wider audience . Baum's Marvelous Land of Oz series ( 1900 ) and Burroughs's Tarzan ...
American Revolutionaries and Founders of the Nation
By James Meisner, Amy Ruth
Discusses the lives of John Adams, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Mason, William Paterson, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morris, and Richard Henry Lee.
Confederate Generals of the Civil War
By Carl R. Green, William Reynolds Sanford
William C. Davis , The Confederate General , Vol . 5 ( National Historical Society , 1991 ) , p . 34 . 5. B. A. Botkin , ed . , A Civil War Treasury of Tales , Legends and Folklore ( New York : Random House , 1960 ) , pp . 511-512 . 6.
The Natchez Trace Historic Trail in American History
By William R. Sanford
2. William C. Davis , A Way Through the Wilderness ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1995 ) , p . 273 . 3. Coates , pp . 151-165 . 4. Davis , p . 276 . 5. Kentucky Gazette , Lexington , Kentucky , September 14 , 1801 .
Polio
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
Finally , Roosevelt's family contacted Dr. Samuel Levine at the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission . Dr. Levine called Dr. Robert Lovett , a medical specialist at Harvard ...
Asthma
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
... found that many people who had asthma had larger amounts of IgE in their blood that people without asthma . People with asthma were more sensitive to their environment than nonallergic people . During the 1960s , Dr. Kenneth Purcell ...
Tinker V. Des Moines: Student Protest
By Leah Farish
Either Bruce Clark or Ross [ Peterson , friends of John's ] said somebody had struck John . Except for the prompt action by the school administration , the problem might well have developed into the type of demonstration that has been ...
The Asthma Update
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
The Chinese described asthma in a medical textbook dating from 1000 B.C. The ancient Chinese used an herb , ma huang , to treat asthma . Ma huang contains ephedrine , a chemical that opens up the airways . It was not until 1924 that ...
Internet Pioneers: The Cyber-elite
By Laura French
Mike Wilson , The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison : Inside Oracle Corporation ( New York : William Morrow and Company , Inc. , 1997 ) , p . 312 . 2. Ibid . , p . 18 . 3. Oral and Video Histories , October 24 , 1995 , < http ...
Sickle Cell Anemia
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
1 A Crisis in the Blood th R everend Jesse Jackson , a civil rights activist , has always been a man with strong ambition . After Martin Luther King , Jr.'s , assassination in April 1968 , Jackson followed in King's footsteps ...
Matthew Henson: Co-discoverer of the North Pole
By Laura Baskes Litwin
Marie Peary Stafford , Discoverer of the North Pole , p . 78 , reprinted in Weems , p . 99 . 9. Matthew Henson , A Negro Explorer at the North Pole ( New York , Frederick A. Stokes Company , 1912 ) , reprinted as A Black Explorer at the ...
Garth Brooks: Country Music Superstar
By Laura Lee Wren
Presents the life and career of singer and songwriter Garth Brooks, discussing how his popularity brought country music to the pop music listening audience.
Leukemia
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
2 A more typical leukemia story these days is the experience of Lee Grayson , a young New Jersey lawyer . In 1995 , when he was thirty - two , he noticed some bruises on his arm and leg . Unlike the usual bumps and bruises he picked up ...
American Inventors of the 20th Century
By Laura S. Jeffrey
Robert's father , Vance Shurney , was a lumberman . Saint Clair Shurney was a role model for her children . She wanted them to excel in everything they did . When she died , Robert , who was eight years old , was devastated .
Chickenpox and Shingles
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
In 1948 , Enders and his young associates , Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins , were trying to develop better ways of growing viruses in a project financed by a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis .
Parkinson's Disease
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
Discusses the disease of the nervous system that causes shaking, balance and coordination problems, and speech difficulties, and goes on to explain the effects of the disease, treatments, and research for a cure.
The Diabetes Update
By Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn
In January 2001 , " Brittle " Diabetes Like some other people with type 1 diabetes , William Lackey was what doctors call " brittle . " No matter how careful he was about taking his insulin and eating properly , he never could predict ...