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Two lives intersect in a story of baseball, military service, and American society in the Korean War era. February 21, 2021
On May 29, 1952, Army draftee Willie Mays reported for duty at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Virginia. The reigning National League Rookie of the Year would see no action during his nearly two years of service except on the baseball diamond, as the center fielder for the Fort Eustis Wheels. Mays later estimated he played in about 180 games while in the Army.
Written by Ginger Vieira on January 12, 2021 â Fact checked by Maria Gifford
Dr. Denise Faustman. Photo by Rick Friedman/Getty Images
Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, is known in many circles as one of the most controversial figures in type 1 diabetes (T1D) cure research. Sheâs raised millions of dollars and waves of hope with her work but has also been effectively shunned by the research community. Yet she barrels forward with her innovative vaccine-based approach to a cure, never letting naysayers deter her.
This is her story.
Motivated as a child
Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Dr. Faustman now leads the Immunobiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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couric: welcome to the broadcast. tonight, james cameron, the director and writer of avatar . the way i intended the film to work and the way i believe it is working is that when people view the film they are told initially that the na vi are bad that they re hostile, ferocious, and that they re going to try to kill you. then you meet them and find out in fact they re pretty fearsome but as you see the world more from their perspective and our hero goes on this journey of perceptual change we begin to embrace them more and more. rose: and a conversation with willie mays. i used to freedom at night and people asked me how could you dream at night and go to the ballpark and do what you dream? i don t know. i used to think about a fly ball coming to me in center field at nighttime when i m at home laying down watching t.v. and something happened, the ball would come out to me, i knew exactly what i had to do. i didn t have to worry about me catching the ball, throwing i
couric: welcome to the broadcast. tonight, james cameron, the director and writer of avatar . the way i intended the film to work and the way i believe it is working is that when people view the film they are told initially that the na vi are bad that they re hostile, ferocious, and that they re going to try to kill you. then you meet them and find out in fact they re pretty fearsome but as you see the world more from their perspective and our hero goes on this journey of perceptual change we begin to embrace them more and more. rose: and a conversation with willie mays. i used to freedom at night and people asked me how could you dream at night and go to the ballpark and do what you dream? i don t know. i used to think about a fly ball coming to me in center field at nighttime when i m at home laying down watching t.v. and something happened, the ball would come out to me, i knew exactly what i had to do. i didn t have to worry about me catching the ball, throwing i