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...think your writing has changed over time? How would you compare A Time to Kill with A Painted House? -Julie Njeri, Nairobi, KenyaThere are moments when I seriously try to assess what I am writing and how I am writing. There has been no deliberate effort to change anything. I still aspire to write a high quality of popular fiction. If you read The Appeal and went back and read The Firm, I am not sure you could tell a difference in the writing style...
...said the woman's homosexuality had been "if not explicit, at least implicit" in France's rejection of her adoption request. The Court judged France had violated the European Convention on Human Rights - to which France and the other 46 Council of Europe members are signatories - by failing to assess adoption by a lesbian the same way it would a single heterosexual...
...Wake Forest have already spun a private business around the study's results - Proactive Genomics, which, like many similar companies that have sprung up recently, will offer a personal genetic test. This one, however, says Xu, will be the world's first genetic screen for a specific disease. To assess cancer risk, patients and doctors currently rely on physical symptoms, age, race, family history and PSA screens - tests that measure blood levels of prostate-specific antigens, which are produced in high amounts by an unhealthy prostate. Xu says his new genetic test - which would require patients to send in blood...
...study published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, graduate student Samuel T. Moulton ’01 and Psychology Professor Stephen M. Kosslyn used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess whether individuals can have knowledge that does not come from normal perceptual processes. This focus on the brain sets their study apart from previous ESP research...
...Mexico. HUDS values the desires of the student body as a whole, inviting undergraduates to “offer comments and suggestions” through online response cards entitled “Let Us Know What You Think.” In addition, HUDS conducts bi-annual surveys to assess dining hall satisfaction. On the most recent questionnaire, one section gauged whether students consider “locally sourced food” a “top priority.” If an overwhelming number of students respond to questions like this affirmatively, change can, and will, occur...