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In 2000, then a 19-year-old sophomore at Yale, Jennifer Staple-Clark took a summer work position as a clinical researcher of glaucoma in the office of her childhood ophthalmologist in New Haven, Connecticut. She was shocked by what she saw there: scores of low-income and homeless patients whose glaucoma had needlessly progressed into blindness. Ove...
Boston: When John F. Kennedy became president, he made a priority of changing U.S. policies towards Latin America, hoping to eliminate paternalism and exploitation from the U.S. stance toward the region. In March 1961, he proposed an Alliance for Progress to help create the political, social and economic framework for better living conditions in...
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Luncheon in honor of Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland. President Kekkonen; President J...