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Week of 20 February 2004 · Vol. VII, No. 21

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Paladino named archive's managing director

Vita Paladino, managing director of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Photo by Allan E. Dines

By Amy E. Dean
Vita Paladino has been named managing director of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, and Howard Gotlieb, who started the center in 1963, has been named founding director.

The smallest enemies are the deadliest

Wards full of patients in iron lungs, such as this one in the Los Angeles County Hospital in the early 1950s, were a common feature of hospital life before Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in 1955. Photo courtesy of the Immunization Action Coalition/Warren F. Collins, Inc.

By Brian Fitzgerald
Elinor Levy's new book on 30 new deadly diseases that have arisen since the 1970s — along with 20 old diseases that are reemerging — might not cause readers to walk around with surgical masks on their faces.

BU's wrestling coach lives for the mat

Wrestling head coach Carl Adams (left) and assistant coach and former Terrier All-American Earl Walker (SAR'96, SED'98,'03). Photo by Rob Klein

By Amy E. Dean
Carl Adams, head coach of BU's wrestling team for 23 years, has lived and breathed wrestling for four decades.

Health Matters: Recognizing and coping with childhood food allergies

Childhood obesity can cause psychological scars

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Michael Lynch, assistant vice president of recreation and athletics in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations (from left), David Silk (CAS’80, MET’92, GSM’94), and Mike Eruzione (SED’77), director of athletics development in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, at a February 12 fundraising reception prior to the screening of the new Disney movie Miracle, about the 1980 gold medal–winning U.S.A. Olympic hockey team. Silk, Eruzione, Jim Craig (SED’79), and Jack O’Callahan (CAS’79), all former Terrier hockey players, were members of the 1980 Olympic hockey team. Proceeds of the event benefited the John Hancock Student Village.

February 12 fundraising reception prior to the screening of the new Disney movie Miracle

20 February 2004
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