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Tay bridge
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Tay bridge The wide estuary of the river Tay on the east coast of Scotland presented a formidable obstacle to transport. The first bridge over the estuary was designed by Thomas Bouch for the North British Railway Company. It was almost 2 miles long and was completed in 1877. Queen Victoria crossed it in the summer of 1879, and knighted its designer on the spot. But at the end of that year, on 28 December 1879, several spans collapsed in a severe storm while a train was crossing, sending 74 people to their deaths. The subsequent inquiry concluded that the bridge was ‘badly designed, badly constructed and badly maintained’. A new road bridge was opened over the estuary in 1966.
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Tay-Sachs An old disease finds new victims 30 years after the first screenings, it's no longer a 'Jewish disease'.(Health & Fitness)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 1/17/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...told Yamada and Yang that their son had Tay-Sachs, a rare and fatal degenerative...a doctor, and Yamada knew a bit about Tay-Sachs. They knew that the disease would...thought it could happen to them. After all, Tay-Sachs has long been considered a Jewish...
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Tay-Sachs diagnosis comes as cruel surprise: Non-Jewish parents usually aren't screened for the disease
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 2/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...has a rare degenerative disease known as Tay-Sachs, which once principally struck...has been so effective that the number of Tay-Sachs babies born to parents who identify...leaves about 20 children diagnosed with Tay-Sachs in the U.S. each year. For their...
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Tay-Sachs test is funded by Mt. Sinai foundation: Free testing for rare but fatal genetic disease is offered.
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 2/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...H. Cleveland Jewish News 02-16-2001 Tay-Sachs test is funded by Mt. Sinai foundation...offered free screening for infantile-onset Tay-Sachs, fewer Jews in Cleveland are being...MetroHealth Medical Center, has reorganized the Tay-Sachs testing program. Individuals can...
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The Tay So'n uprising: Society and rebellion in eighteenth-century Vietnam.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Tay So'n uprising: Society and rebellion in...contemporary accounts, and missionary accounts of the Tay So'n uprising (1771-1802), George Dutton...have erred in simplistically labelling the Tay So'n as an ideologically driven peasant rebellion...
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Rappin' 4-Tay: The Legend Continues
Newspaper article from: Sun Reporter, The; 9/29/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Reporter, The 09-29-1994 Rappin' 4-Tay: The Legend Continues. Although he's...making his mark nationally, Rappin' 4-Tay - along with MC Hammer, Too Short and Spice...trombone, baritone horn and trumnpet), 4-tay (born Anthony Forte) discovered his rhyming...
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Fear Of Tay-Sachs Resurgence Seen: with low rate of screening among
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 12/11/1998; 700+ words
; The Jewish Week 12-11-1998 Fear Of Tay-Sachs Resurgence Seen: With low rate...expert. STEWART AIN Staff Writer Although Tay-Sachs, a fatal genetic disease, has...and non-Jewish couples be screened for Tay-Sachs. "There are still doctors who...
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The Vanquishing Of Tay-Sachs
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 1/27/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...their 8-month-old son, was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease in 1956. Sophisticated New Yorkers...know any other families whose children also had Tay-Sachs. They didn't know that Tay-Sachs, considered an orphan disease striking...
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Generation of the Tay Nappe, Scotland, by large-scale SE-directed shearing
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...scale Fl folds within the 'Flat Belt' of the Tay Nappe. Strata within the `Flat Belt' of the Tay Nappe. Strata within the `Flat Belt', forming part of the lower limb of the Tay Nappe, are thus not entirely inverted, and...
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Honoring Pioneers Who Helped Eradicate Tay-Sachs
Newspaper article from: Forward; 8/17/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...2001 Honoring Pioneers Who Helped Eradicate Tay-Sachs Samuel and Ruth Dunkell, who in 1957 founded the National Tay-Sachs Association after they lost a child...struggle to educate the Jewish community about Tay-Sachs and shows how that struggle affected...
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Drug May Prolong Lives of Tay-Sachs Babies; Trial of Zavesca, Studied for Older Patients, Is First To Involve Infants
Newspaper article from: Forward; 8/5/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...2005 For the first time ever, infants with Tay-Sachs disease may have a fighting chance...drug Zavesca for treatment of infants with Tay-Sachs disease. The proposal marks the...years been in clinical trials for Late Onset Tay-Sachs, a milder, adult variation of...
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Tay-Sachs Disease
Book article from: U*X*L Complete Health Resource
TAY-SACHS DISEASE DEFINITION Tay-Sachs disease (pronounced tay-SACKS) is a genetic disorder that can lead to paralysis, blindness, convulsions, mental retardation (see mental retardation entry) and death. A genetic disorder is a medical...
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Tay
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Tay "Tay" (T à y, Tho, Thu) is a general term used in reference to the...in northern Vietnam. In 1985, the total number of people classified as "Tay" was 1,190,342, making them the largest ethnic population in Vietnam...
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Tay-Sachs disease
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tay-Sachs disease , rare hereditary disease caused...named for a British ophthalmologist, Warren Tay, who first described the disease, in 1881...between ages three and five. Late-onset Tay-Sachs occurs in persons who have a genetic...
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Tay bridge
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Tay bridge The wide estuary of the river Tay on the east coast of Scotland presented a formidable obstacle to transport. The first bridge over the estuary was designed by Thomas Bouch for the North British Railway Company. It was almost 2 miles...
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Tay Ninh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tay Ninh , city, S Vietnam, NW of Ho Chi Minh City. It is the center of the Cao Dai, a politically active religious group that...
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