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...neighbors complained that the facility would affect property values and attract coyotes and vultures. TSU had to abandon the site, over concerns that gathering vultures would threaten aircraft, and university officials say the body farm will be built elsewhere in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CSI Too Close to Home | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...conventional wisdom. Critics claim such "stubbornness" is the tragic flaw of a popular leader, but in fact, such fortitude is the welcome sign of a true leader. Public opinion may change on a whim—it faces no consequences—but a leader’s decisions affect an entire country. That leader is stubborn when he refuses to change a failed policy, but he is spineless when he changes his personal beliefs to curry favor with the public...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Neither Zealot, Nor Poodle | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...into the photoreceptor cells, and the one-time procedure could permanently cure the blindness. Johnson's condition - a faulty RPE65 gene - is incredibly rare. But Ali says the procedure, if it works, could be used to treat any one of about 100 inherited single-gene sight disorders that, together, affect 1 in 2,000 or 3,000 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gene to Cure Blindness | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...should all be angry about this. Just as issues of race do not solely affect one group, they cannot be solved by one group alone. While it is not necessarily the spiteful intent of a majority of individuals to inflict racial inequalities on people of color, the structure of a society which is heir to a legacy of racial oppression disseminates these negative attitudes throughout our culture...

Author: By Lumumba Seegars | Title: Constructive Anger | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

While I partly agree with the conclusion of Mr. Wafsy’s editorial that the medical school must do more to educate its students on issues that affect patient care, I take strong opposition the implication his article makes against non-religious (and religious) physicians who choose not to engage their patients on issues of faith by essentially calling them “[less] effective...

Author: By Matt Oertli | Title: Doctors That Do Not Discuss Faith Are Not Less Effective | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

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