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Last March, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the University of Texas Law School's affirmative action program for admissions, ruling that race could not be considered as a factor...
...Hopwood ruling now affects only Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, which are covered by the Fifth Circuit...
...were very disappointed the Supreme Court didn't rule on the issue," Browning says. "We don't like the idea that the Fifth Circuit has one set rules and rest of the country has another...
Even if the government flatly says that admissions cannot take race into account, as it has in the Fifth Circuit, Rudenstine says, the question of what it means to consider race is very ambiguous...
...cell makes mistakes in this critical task, vigilant enzymes quickly call a halt to the process until repairs can be made. Sometimes, however, the DNA of a dividing cell is too badly damaged to be salvaged. At this point, these same enzymes help activate a kamikaze circuit that compels the cell to commit suicide by destroying...