Graham previously won the Pulitzer Prize for he collection The Dream of the Unified Field in 1996.

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After graduating from medical school in 1975 and from an orthopedic surgery residency, also at Hahnemann, he followed his dream into what was then considered a backwater field.

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The rest of the field, meanwhile, is allowed to dream.

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He kept his own council after Thierry Henry had cheated him of a World Cup dream and he has been impressive on and off the field.

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Caulfield -- who just opened a Manhattan outpost of her Hoboken boutique, Jessie James -- used VocationVacations to match her with an established mentor in her chosen field which enabled her to test-drive her dream job.

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But the Republicans have a strange conception of the American Dream that makes no room for a social safety net to even the playing field and support the most vulnerable among us.

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We are happy that Brian will have a chance to live out his dream of playing in the NFL, and we look forward to seeing him on the field.

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Over the past few decades, a number of researchers (most famously Stephen LeBarge) have done outstanding work in the field, including pioneering well-validated techniques for learning how to wake oneself up mid-dream.

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Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dream of a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.

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