Word: affective
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...received in the Oval Office were merely a symptom. The disease was the "coarsening of the culture"--the fact that, with the release of the Starr report, fellatio and the creative use of tobacco products were now the subject of the nightly news. And they were right--Lewinskygate did affect the media's content standards--even if, to observers like me, frank, unembarrassed sex talk in public was a good thing. Leaders' examples matter, sniffed candidate Bush. On June 4, the appeals court concurred...
...does all this science affect the millions of patients banking on the promise of stem-cell therapies? Each of the investigators stress that their results, while exciting, have not yet been tested with human cells, although those studies are already under way. But the basic principles involved in generating stem cells in mice and man are the same, and with a few modifications, the scientists hope to have similar success with human cells. "It's likely to be the case that since this discovery is based on such fundamental cell biology principles, that the overarching rules [for mouse and human...
...work, combined with inequality in family responsibilities, it is probably unrealistic to expect Harvard to have a big impact,” according to Iversen. But he added that Harvard “has a responsibility to educate about the underlying causes of gender inequality, which in turn may affect public policies...
...first step in institutionalizing gender-neutral housing—where students could be placed into mixed gender suites —was taken this year with the announcement that students may mark themselves as transgender on their housing forms, instead of as only male or female. This option will affect entering freshmen and transfer students, as well as all students in next spring’s housing lotteries...
...Auguste creates micro-environments in her lab that simulate bodily conditions in an attempt to better grasp the way that diseases such as cancer and diabetes affect human cells and tissue. Her work is focused on two specific areas—drug delivery and stem cell differentiation...