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...decade after black students began to discover "the subtle, pervasive flaws in our attitudes toward minority groups." Bok told the NAACP that when these black activists took a close look at Harvard's hiring and academic policies in the sixties they found "a vast capacity for benign neglect, easy rationalizations for inaction and myriad forms of subtle discrimination that infected many levels of administration throughout our complex institutions...
...truth of their situation, which is also the novel's truth. The heroin is as shackling a possession as the bag of gold in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale. Indeed, it is worse. Chaucer's three thieves at least thought that the gold was benign. Their catastrophe stemmed from disregarding Christian doctrine: radix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of all evil). Without a moral compass, Stone's characters cannot even plead ignorance. The irony that the heroin's value is rooted in its destructiveness does not escape them, but they cannot drop...
...breast lumps, doctors can quickly rule out growths that are not cancerous. If it hurts, according to gynecology texts, it is unlikely to be malignant. Manipulation can also help screen out the innocent lumps; if they seem unanchored and can be moved about under the skin, they are usually benign cysts. A needle biopsy, in which a needle is inserted into the lump and fluid or cells are withdrawn, can also be used to identify cysts. But some growths are too small or too well concealed behind other tissues for such procedures. In those cases, the only way a doctor...
...safe, effective way to shrink enlarged thymus glands or adenoids and destroy infected tonsils. They used the technique on thousands of small children. But in the early 1950s, after doctors began finding a high correlation between the X-ray treatment and the later development of growths (both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting that children who had received X-ray treatments were far more likely to develop thyroid cancer and leukemia than those...
...believe was caused by X-ray treatments administered when she was an infant. But for most, the damage has not been irreparable. Doctors have found thyroid abnormalities in 195 of the first thousand patients examined under the Wisconsin program, but a good many of these growths proved to be benign and were treated successfully. A New York State program that has traced patients since 1955 found only 19 cases of cancer when it studied 3,000 patients in 1963, well above what would normally be expected but considerably below the 20% rate projected by the Wisconsin researchers...