Word: claiming
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Bumper Stickers. To whip up enthusiasm for the bills, supporters have packed committee hearings and state house galleries with vocal supporters, many of whom are elderly. In Wichita, Kans., Virginia Wilson held a Laetrile taste-in at her home, featuring fresh fruits, lima beans, beets and carrots, which proponents claim are rich in the substance. She also showed a 45-minute pro-Laetrile film called World Without Cancer. At the Illinois state house, some 300 Laetrile backers passed out blue-and-white bumper stickers that read: LAETRILE WORKS! YOU BET YOUR LIFE. In Massachusetts, supporters delivered to the legislature...
...arguments are often strengthened by the testimony of cancer victims who claim they have been helped by the substance. In Texas, explains anti-Laetrile Lobbyist Ace Pickens, "legislators said, 'Oh hell, if it doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York...
LAETRILE, an extract from crushed apricot pits that releases minute amounts of cyanide in the body. The drug's propagandists claim that it helps prevent cancer, reduces tumors and relieves pain. Despite the FDA ban, anyone who wants to eat crushed apricot kernels-sometimes sold as "vitamin B17"-can legally buy them in some health-food stores...
...Critics claim Wald is too image conscious, exploiting research and issues for his personal exposure. But his contributions to science and society have come about as a result of the public's perception of him--regardless of its accuracy. As Mendelson says, Wald, with his creative intellect and moral convictions, has "pierced the mystique of science" and "set a new standard for scholars...
...pedagogical improvement was essentially a document aimed at raising the Faculty's consciousness about the importance of teaching quality. Its major recommendation--that evaluations of teaching ability accompany all nominations for tenure, promotion or appointment--was designed to provide more concrete incentives for investing time in teaching. Administrators claim that the committees who consider nominations for tenure or promotion are already beginning systematically to take teaching ability into account...