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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gathered in Washington this spring to launch a movement they're calling the Second Wave of clinical research. (The first happened in the early '90s, when studies began to include large numbers of women.) A conclave of maternal-health advocates is now pushing for better information on how drugs affect pregnant women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks (and Rewards) of Pills and Pregnancy | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...legal aid, they raised about $2.4 million to fund their case, with more families coming on board later. Their subsequent claim for more than $15 million in damages was based on the long-term psychological impacts of the atrocity - posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and alcoholism - which continue to affect many of the victims' family members. Given their disappointments in the past, the odds seemed stacked against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Omagh Families Win in Court Against the Real IRA | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...good old days of the last century, the years before the collapse of the economy and the World Trade Center towers, political discourse in the U.S. was, too often, rutted in issues that didn't affect the lives of most people. They were important moral and symbolic issues, to be sure. And they were difficult issues, although their subtleties were obscured by extremists, who tended to dominate the debate. Still, the people directly affected by the so-called social issues - abortion, gay marriage, racial preferences - pale in comparison with the tens of millions who have lost their jobs and fortunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Hot-Button Issues | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

...McCarty writes in an e-mail that the planned reductions would mostly affect teaching assistants from outside of Harvard, and that any cuts to CA employment would be roughly the same size as usual yearly fluctuations in hiring. Approximately 250 CAs are hired each semester, according to McCarty...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Feel the Pinch | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...from a couple terse e-mails from administrators. But recalling my roommate’s admonishment, and how I had felt immediately after the piece was printed, I began to wonder how so many of us have become conditioned to withhold our opinions when it comes to issues that affect Harvard. Indeed, as I stopped to think about it, I realized that nearly all of us have been silent for years on issues that go to the heart of the University. It’s a reticence that stands in stark contrast to how we act when expressing our views...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani | Title: Why I (sort of) Like SLAM | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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